Congratulations to dogi, silbe, and bernie on their heroic infrastructure clean up over the last week! We have been consolidating production machines. Leaving more room for vm playgrounds for development. One of the next areas for clean up is the build farm. <a href="http://buildbot.sugarlabs.org/">http://buildbot.sugarlabs.org/</a> [1]. Silbe took over the farm from me over a year ago. Yes, that does mean that I am taking responsibility for any early design flaw while giving silbe create for the thankless job of keeping the farm productive as it grew to include more and more releases. It is now time to rethink the design and implementation of the farm. The farm started before sugarlabs had any of its own machines. Sunjammer was still just a dream. We started using xen VMs donated by Luke Crawford. Within a few months this started to become a problem as the version of xen Luke was using would not run recent distros. So _bernie set up bender at his former company to run builds. Current status: Machine build-release bender debian-squeze-64bit bender debian-squeeze-armel bender fedora-10-64bit bender fedora-10-32bit bender fedora-11-64bit buildslave4 ubuntu-9.4-??bits housetree ubuntu-10.4-64 bits This leads us to: 1. What releases should we build? 2. How can we make the system more maintainable? 3. What features do we want to add to the build machines? My initial thought are how to make the build farm as modular as possible. Can we move all of the vms to a single machine? Does bender have the disk space, memory and bandwidth to run all of the VMs. Sorry, bernie I don't see how we can get awy from multiple vms in this case. 1. We set up the buildbot service to run from the bender physical machine. Buildbot is a pretty standard python app which is served via apache. 2. Run apt-catcher and an rpm cacher from the physical machines. This will help reduce bandwidth needs. 3. Set up build slaves as needed. Other concerns are how consumers of the build farm intend to use the system. For example, I make a weekly ISO build on the ubuntu 10.04 machine and upload it to sunjammer. The soas developers are talking about doing something similar.... but with daily builds. david 1. Notice the copywrite at the bottom of the page 'The Sugar Learning Project' :) That dates the page.