Re: buildbot setup

[Lennart Borgman]

2010/6/30 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:39:23 +0200 Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> LB> 2010/6/30 Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>:
>>> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:11:11 +0200 Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
> SM> So we could tell people to use <someplace> to checkout the latest
> SM> successfully tested version of the code.
>>>
>>> I'm not crazy about using a branch to announce a build success.  Are
>
> LB> Can't it be just a command to checkout the successfully successfully
> LB> tested revision?
>
> We could use a tag.  But as I mentioned there's a lot of complexity to a
> "success" especially if we care about more than one platform and set of
> libraries.


Would it be possible to write a web page with something like this below?

  To get last successful builds:

    GNU/Linux:  bzr branch http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/trunk -r nnnnn1
    w32: bzr ... -r nnnn2
    ... etc


>>> I think it's better and less confusing to simply announce failures
>>> through another channel, perhaps as bugs.  Then silence will be the
>>> default, which is good for everyone, and builds will not have any
>>> effect on the repository.
>
> LB> Can't it be combined?
>
> Sorry, can you explain?  I can't figure out what you mean.


Just write a web page as above and make announcements the way you suggested.