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

[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
> > ...
> 
> What sort of tests do you need to do on AMD64?

AMD64 test of Xprt+GLX and one of the "heisenbugs" related to CUPS when
the *BSD-compat. package isn't installed. I only need shell access and
all tools required to build the Xorg tree...

> > > 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.

Uhm... what exact problem do you mean ?

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Roland

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