Re: This is Great!

Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 07:32:37PM -0500, Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
>>I wonder if any of the vendors would sponsor a compile farm that would
>>check that XFree86 compiles fine - and if not notifies whoever made the
>>changes that break compilation. I believe there was a similar system
>>used in Mozilla. This way the breakage would be fixed and the snapshots
>>would at least always compile.
>>
>>I am not sure how many computers would be needed - today they are faster
>>and XFree86 does not use C++. Perhaps one or two would be enough.
> 
> This would only take in account the most common arches or maybe even
> only x86, right ?
> 
> Maybe cross compilers could be set up to at least test if compilation
> gets broken for alternative arches ?

Mozilla.org's tinderbox arrangement is a very useful smoketest envrionment. It also allows distribution of test platforms, so companies/community members can house their own test servers which report back to a central place.

The portable OpenSSH project has a one which is run by a member of the community. It has been *very* useful and has greatly reduced the time build bugs have persisted in our development tree.

-d