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

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 06:50:30AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> 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
> ...

What sort of tests do you need to do on AMD64? 

> > 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...

Sure, but I'm just strongly cautioning against relying on SourceForge.
Try to check something out of their CVS one day, if you want to know
what I mean.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
freedesktop.org: powering your desktop                http://www.freedesktop.org
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