Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-08 Thread Martin v. Löwis
That is true, however it doesn't help you: the hook takes its configuration from the hgrc file, so you can configure exactly one host:port to send changes to. Ah, ok. Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-08 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20101107 12:52], Nick Coghlan (ncogh...@gmail.com) wrote: This sounds like a great place to start. Perhaps focus on one or two of the less common platforms first (e.g. FreeBSD 7 has been hitting a few semaphore issues lately). Nick, do you have some pointers for this? I am one of those BSD

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmo...@in-nomine.org wrote: -On [20101107 12:52], Nick Coghlan (ncogh...@gmail.com) wrote: This sounds like a great place to start. Perhaps focus on one or two of the less common platforms first (e.g. FreeBSD 7 has been hitting a few

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-08 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 13:15, Dirkjan Ochtman dirk...@ochtman.nl wrote: Yeah, Martin has things for buildbot worked out. Notes about this are in the hg.python.org/pymigr repository. I meant Georg here, of course. Sorry, Georg! Cheers, Dirkjan ___

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-08 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de wrote: Luckily, the problems that we faced 2.5 years ago when I came up with the idea of Snakebite are still just as ever present today ;-) Is this bashing of existing infrastructure really necessary? People (like me) might

[Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread Trent Nelson
On 07-Nov-10 1:55 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Giampaolo Rodolàg.rod...@gmail.com wrote: In such cases I would find more easy to be able to connect to the machine and test myself rather than create a separate branch, commit, schedule a buildbot run, wait for it to

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread Nick Coghlan
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Trent Nelson tr...@snakebite.org wrote: 1.  Set up standard build slaves on all the platforms, but put something in place that allowed committers to ssh/mstsc in to said slaves when things go wrong in order to aid with debugging and/or maintaining general

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread Dirkjan Ochtman
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:24, Trent Nelson tr...@snakebite.org wrote: Titus, for example, alluded to some nifty way for a committer to push his local hg branch/changes somewhere, such that it would kick off builds on multiple platforms in the same sorta' vein as point 2, but able to leverage

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 07.11.2010 12:50, schrieb Nick Coghlan: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Trent Nelson tr...@snakebite.org wrote: 1. Set up standard build slaves on all the platforms, but put something in place that allowed committers to ssh/mstsc in to said slaves when things go wrong in order to aid with

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread exarkun
On 11:24 am, tr...@snakebite.org wrote: 2. Address the second problem of the buildbot web interface sucking for non-standard branches. I'm thinking along the lines of a hack to buildbot, such that upon creation of new per-activity branches off a mainline, something magically runs in the

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Luckily, the problems that we faced 2.5 years ago when I came up with the idea of Snakebite are still just as ever present today ;-) Is this bashing of existing infrastructure really necessary? People (like me) might start bashing about vaporware and how a bird in the hand is worth two in the

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread Martin v. Löwis
I've spent a good bit of time on that, and left all the instructions in the buildbot master config. I also adapted buildbot's hg hook to our situation (e.g. to send a change to multiple masters, as required for the community buildbots), so it should be quite easy to actually switch the

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 06:24:59 -0500 Trent Nelson tr...@snakebite.org wrote: (And if we feel like bringing IRIX/MIPS and Tru64/Alphas back as primary platforms, we've got the hardware to do that, too ;-).) Unless you want to rename your project zombiebite, it would probably be better not to

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread Scott Dial
On 11/7/2010 7:09 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: Luckily, the problems that we faced 2.5 years ago when I came up with the idea of Snakebite are still just as ever present today ;-) Is this bashing of existing infrastructure really necessary? People (like me) might start bashing about vaporware

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread C. Titus Brown
On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 09:32:33PM -0500, Scott Dial wrote: On 11/7/2010 7:09 PM, Martin v. L?wis wrote: Luckily, the problems that we faced 2.5 years ago when I came up with the idea of Snakebite are still just as ever present today ;-) Is this bashing of existing infrastructure really

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread Scott Dial
On 11/7/2010 9:58 PM, C. Titus Brown wrote: Yes, yes, I agree that some graciousness is a good idea. Oh, wait... you're not helping. Classy. I don't remember being invited to help. snakebite.org is a dead end. snakebite-list hasn't had a post for over a year. Where is the list of things that

Re: [Python-Dev] Snakebite, buildbot and low hanging fruit -- feedback wanted! (Was Re: SSH access against buildbot boxes)

2010-11-07 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 08.11.2010 01:13, schrieb Martin v. Löwis: I've spent a good bit of time on that, and left all the instructions in the buildbot master config. I also adapted buildbot's hg hook to our situation (e.g. to send a change to multiple masters, as required for the community buildbots), so it