[Xorg] Using SourceForge's compile farm to build and test theXorg tree...

[Roland Mainz]

Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 05:36:27AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > Is there any interest here in convincing SourcForge to open their
> > compilefarm (read
> > http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=762&group_id=1)
> > firewall (e.g. open the port for CVS that people can do checkouts from
> > pdx.freedesktop.org) that people can use those machines to build and
> > test Xorg/FreeDesktop projects ?
> 
> Not really from here; we have a far better portability lab in Debian.

Is it possible that we can use the Debian machines for _debugging_, too
? I need to do some tests on a AMD64/Linux machine and on IRIX + OpenVMS
...

> We
> get reasonable coverage of all the OSes from porters (*BSD, proprietary
> Unices), and Debian covers 14 or 15 architectures or something (trust
> me, it's a lot, and often architectures that upstream doesn't support,
> such as S/390, ARM/Linux, et al). Between those two factors, we cover
> most everything pretty nicely, and we don't have to involve SourceForge.

SourceForge also has FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris/x86 etc. compile
machines... my point is that people could test their patches against a
large set of machines...

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Bye,
Roland

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