[darcs-users] fwd: volunteers with always-on boxes sought for automated testing

[zooko]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Thorkil Naur wrote:
>
> The way I would run this show, I would take up any offer of running  
> a buildbot
> slave, even if it were a duplicate of what I already had. In that  
> way, you
> reduce the risk of losing individual variants.


It will certainly not burden the buildmaster, nor cause any problems  
for the other buildslaves (who are oblivious to the existence of each  
other), so technically there's no reason not to run two identical  
buildslaves, and if they have subtle differences such as being  
different Linux distributions then all the better.

(See the allmydata.org buildbot waterfall [1] for an indication of  
our attitude towards such things.  :-))

Regards,

Zooko

[1] http://allmydata.org/buildbot/waterfall