Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB BuildBot

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>]

On Thursday, January 15 2015, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> Hi Sergio,

Hey Joel,

>> It took a bit more time than I was planning, but finally I am back to
>> announce our BuildBot.  I really expect that it will help us improve our
>> codebase and catch regressions/failures sooner (in fact, it already
>> helped me to catch at least 2 regressions).
>> 
>> The initial idea was to deploy our BuildBot master directly on
>> sourceware, but unfortunately this was not possible.  So, after trying
>> to find other places, I decided to use my own personal server.  However,
>> my main goal is to turn this project into something official for the GDB
>> project, and I do hope that using my own server does not give a false
>> sense of "this is Sergio's pet-project".
>> 
>> Having said that, the current address for our BuildBot is:
>> 
>>   <http://gdb-build.sergiodj.net/>
>
> I started taking a look, and this looks very very nice.
> The interface already looks quite sleek and polished!

Thank you :-).

> We've all already seen that the bot help us a couple of times
> associate regressions with specific commits, so I know it's going
> to be really useful, and I look forward to more reports (actually,
> not really, but that wouldn't be the bot's fault ;-)).

Great!  I am seeing some fuzzy test results there now, so it will take
some time until everything is set up perfectly.  But, baby steps!

> Perhaps you might want to present it and give a demo at the next
> GNU Cauldron :-)...

It would be neat :-).  I just have to be able to attend the conference
:-P.

Cheers,

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