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

[David Roundy]

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 06:47:25PM -0700, zooko wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2008, at 6:42 PM, zooko wrote:
> >(See the allmydata.org buildbot waterfall [1] for an indication of  
> >our attitude towards such things.  :-))
> ...
> >[1] http://allmydata.org/buildbot/waterfall

Well, right now every buildbot needs to be set up by me.  It only takes a
few minutes, but I'm pretty short on time right now, and would rather avoid
duplicated effort.  Would you like to take charge of the buildmaster?

There's also the factor that additional buildbots without additional folks
willing to help debug are likely to be more of a burden than a help.  It's
far more common to have portability bugs in our test scripts than in darcs
itself, and I'm not going to waste my time fixing bugs in test scripts when
I could be fixing bugs in darcs.  Or at least, I shouldn't be doing that.

> By the way, here are the graphs of some of the allmydata.org performance
> measurements.  Wouldn't it be cool if we had similar graphs of darcs
> performance measurements?

Yes, it would.
-- 
David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University