[sugar] Build bots

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

Ian Bicking wrote:
> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>> Might be interesting. Didn't really look into it but it seem to be 
>> based on jhbuild.
>> http://blogs.igalia.com/dape/2006/10/06/developer-testing-is-good-for-you/ 
>>
>
> It looks like it's based on buildbot: http://buildbot.sourceforge.net/
>
> Buildbot is basically a server, where you give it a build script and a 
> test script.  It runs each, and if either gives a non-zero exit code 
> it keeps track of that (and any error messages, just what's printed to 
> stdout/stderr).  You can trigger rebuilds, usually from some 
> post-commit hook.  Buildbot likes isolated environments generally (so 
> you are testing the stability of the code, not the larger 
> environment), which is what jhbuild gives you.
>

Yeah, what I meant is that I think they have patches to integrate with 
with jhbuild or something. Didn't really have time to look in detail.

> You can also have things like multiple build slaves, to test across 
> different platforms, and then they report centrally.  That makes 
> buildbot a little more complicated, but probably doesn't apply to OLPC.
>
> Even if there are no tests, this would help detect build problems.
>

Sounds pretty good.

Marco