Thanks so much for the answers to all this, Robert.

> > What are the resource requirements on something like this?  For
> > example,
>
> >  * How many free MB should be always available?
>
> Whatever it takes to build/test Sage these days for RAM, plus disk
> space for a single Sage install + 100MB/ticket disk.

Hmm, 100MB per ticket is actually nontrivial on older machines.


> >  * Does this distributed patchbot always delete the patches when it's
> > done?
>
> It keeps them around until the ticket is closed. It could be worth
> making this configurable.

For sure on older machines.

> >  * Can one stop the patchbot if one wants to do something else on the
> > computer without ill effect?
>
> Yes. The ticket will be marked as "pending" for the next 12 hours or
> so if you never report any results, but that's the only ill effect.
> You can also specify hours of the day that you want it to run, e.g.
> "22-7,10-16" for 10pm-7am, 10am-4pm. Day of week could be valuable as
> well.

I would have *never* guessed this from the patch!    I finally found
where this happens.  Maybe you could post a "sample" conf file to the
ticket as well using all the options; that would be a middle ground
between the current patch and full docs.

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