[darcs-users] buildbot update

[zooko]

Folks:

We have a few new bots on the buildbot waterfall since the last time  
I posted to darcs-users:

http://buildbot.darcs.net/waterfall

Karel has contributed OpenBSD and OpenSolaris bots, and I added an  
Ubuntu Dapper bot.

As you can see, we have many bugs that are visible on various  
platforms.  Some of them are bugs in the build process, some in the  
testing process (e.g. shell tests that don't work as expected on  
Windows (using Cygwin bash)).  Probably some of them are actually  
bugs in darcs, but I'm not sure.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed a buildbot!

I would be happy to have more buildbots!  Please write to  
zooko at zooko.com to offer your computer's services.  The only  
requirement is that your computer is usually on-line so that we don't  
often have those grey "offline" boxes.

Also, please look at the output of these tests and submit patches  
that make the tests execute correctly and make darcs execute correctly.

I am probably going to start programming buildbots to upload the  
resulting darcs executable (if it passed all tests) to a web site so  
that people can get piping hot fresh-out-of-the-oven darcs  
executables for various platforms.


Oh, there is one problem, it seems like something about how darcs  
pipes to external commands has partially broken the post-apply hook  
which is supposed to notify the buildbot whenever a patch is  
committed to David's central repository.  Therefore, while many  
patches have been committed recently:

http://allmydata.org/trac/darcs-2/timeline? 
from=2008-05-20&daysback=1&changeset=on

Only some of them have been announced to the buildmaster:

http://buildbot.darcs.net/waterfall

Could someone please look at the post-apply hook which is supposed to  
be notifying the buildmaster and fix it?


Another problem is that e-mail notifications aren't working yet.  The  
buildmaster's log says things like:

2008/05/20 10:34 -0700 [Broker,6,82.153.21.1] sending mail (632  
bytes) to ['darcs-devel at darcs.net']

but mail doesn't arrive at the darcs-devel at darcs.net list.  I'll  
check and be sure that the buildmaster is really sending mail by  
redirecting that mail to zooko at zooko.com .

Regards,

Zooko