Re: Request for help with the Buildbot [was: Re: Status of GDB buildbots]
Luis Machado via Gdb <[email protected]>
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Hi, On 8/25/20 11:47 AM, Sergio Durigan Junior via Gdb wrote: > On Tuesday, August 25 2020, Rainer Orth wrote: > >> Rainer Orth <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> It seems regular scheduled runs of the GDB buildbots stopped about a >>> month ago. AFAICS all runs since (which are only a few) are for the >>> racy and try_ssh schedulers only, nothing for master. >>> >>> I've initially observed this on the Solaris buildbots, but the others >>> seem to be equally affected. For the Solaris bots, there are regular >>> keepalive messages in twistd.log, but nothing else. >> >> I've never received a reply on this one and now found that Sergio has >> left RedHat. Given that the buildbots have been mostly idle for a month >> or two: is there anyone to look into this? > > Hi Rainer, > > Sorry about the disappearance; indeed I'm not at RH anymore, and > although I'm trying to follow gdb-patches, I'm not subscribed to gdb@ > anymore, which means I completely missed your message :-/. Is this something RH will pick up or is it a best-effort personal contribution of yours? > > Anyway, I was not aware of this problem with our buildbot. I thought > I'd be able to maintain it while doing my other job, but as it turns out > it's just too much. So I'm hijacking this thread and turning it into a > request for help with our Buildbot. > > I don't know how much value the Buildbot still brings to the community. > I know a few people were relying heavily on it because of the try build > feature, but I'm not sure if they still use it. That's something for > the community to discuss, I think. I can state it brings pretty good value to arm-linux/aarch64-linux testing. I've been noticing an influx of regressions from pushed patches that have not been properly exercised on aarch64-linux, which is unfortunate. Ideally we'd have a CI loop integrated with some patch reviewing system (gerrit was great in this regard), but the buildbot is already a great improvement over not having anything.