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

David Roundy droundy at darcs.net
Tue Mar 4 21:24:12 UTC 2008


Have you built darcs on this machine?

David

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:52:42PM -0800, J. Garrett Morris wrote:
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> 
> 
> 

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David Roundy
Department of Physics
Oregon State University


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