On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Dustin <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Jul 20, 12:29 pm, Jozef Sevcik <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I'm interesting in contributing with 'my' platform, but I'm not sure:
> > a) is there some list of what platforms are covered right now
> > b) how does it work ? what should I provide if I want to contribute ?
> > what should I study/setup ?
>
>   I wrote up this wiki page to hopefully get you started:
>
>  http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/BuildFarm
>
> >     So far I have no idea how buildbots work.
> >     I guess it's important to provide SSH access to my server with
> > some user that has gcc stuff available,
>
>   buildbot runs as a process on your machine that makes a single
> outbound connection over which we tell it what to do.  It does not
> need to provide any further access than the ability to download,
> configure, compile and test the code.
>
>  Specifically, there are several builders we have running that I've
> never logged into.  :)
>
> >     is there something specific etc what I need to setup ?
>
>   Very little, actually.  You install buildbot, run ``buildbot create-
> slave'' with a slave name and a secret password (that I need to know
> to tell the master to expect it), edit a couple files to put your name
> and a description of the host into them, and just make sure it's
> running.  The rest happens on the other end.


Is there any interest in a buildbot for some older hardware?
I'm guessing not, but if there is, I have some old development servers we
use.

 - AMD Duron(tm) processor (800MHz)
 - Pentium III (Katmai) (500MHz)

Both are running ArchLinux.

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