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

[J. Garrett Morris]

I can offer a Windows Vista (soon to be 64-bit) machine, with GHC
6.8.2 (perhaps also soon to be 64 bit).

 /g

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 6:35 AM, David Roundy <droundy at darcs.net> wrote:
> 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
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