[darcs-users] Current buildbot status.

Petr Rockai me at mornfall.net
Tue Jan 27 13:18:35 UTC 2009


Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:33:11 +0100, Petr Rockai wrote:
>> I have a few questions about our current buildbot status. First and foremost,
>> where are we with regards to using Cabal on the buildbot?
>
> We have patches to use Cabal for the buildbots.  They are waiting until
> we get all the slaves green again.
So Cabal progress is blocked again for hard-to-predict amount of time... : - (
Sometimes, it feels like fighting the windmills.

> It's a known bug.  We'll need to upgrade the build master to a new
> version of buildbot, although I'm not sure which or when it will be
> out if it isn't already.
Ah, ok. Zooko, is there anything that could be done about this?

>> The network tests fail randomly, seemingly due to intermittent connectivity
>> problems. Can we punt those to "orange" kind of box, instead of a hard
>> failure?
>
> darcs get http://code.haskell.org/darcs/buildbot
> and a smattering of Python
Mmh. But I have no way to test such changes until someone appears to check and
apply them?

Would it be more productive for me to set up separate buildbot infrastructure
on some of my machines? I don't have too many different systems unfortunately,
so it's not going to cover too much. But please realise that I have time *now*
to work on the build. I might have it tomorrow, but who knows when will be the
next time I have time or motivation for things like these. Buildbot, from
experience, will take weeks, or months, to turn green. But I would like to have
all the infrastructure mess long sorted out by that time -- and concentrate on
some actual coding (it seems a rather scarce commodity, new darcs code, these
days...). But I guess that's not my call. Well, let me know when there's some
window for making progress. I'll be hacking hashed-storage in my darcs time
till then.

Yours,
   Petr.

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