Re: The new Buildbot: what’s happ ening, what needs to happen

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 09:08:15PM -0600, Colin Snover wrote:
> Team,
> 
> One of my goals for the next release of ScummVM is to automate the
> process of building and generating release packages. My hope is that
> this will allow us to have a faster release cycle, more consistent
> release quality, and free up manpower to focus on the many parts of
> ScummVM which cannot be so easily automated (like adding more engines! :)).
> 
> The first two major parts of this project are nearly complete: the
> upgrade of Buildbot, and the introduction of infrastructure management
> using Ansible.

Hi Colin,

Let me start by saying: Thank you! This is great work, and will really help
keep ScummVM portable and maintainable. I'm very enthusiastic about these
changes.

From earlier experience with other projects (as well as from tests with the
docker images you've created), I can fully agree that using scripted,
replicable toolchains for building is very nice to work with, giving us much
more freedom to experiment without being afraid of breaking things.

I don't have time today to reply in-depth, but I hope over the next few months
we can fully implement these things.

-Willem Jan

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