Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU buildbot maintenance state

[Anthony Liguori]

Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:

>   Hi,
>
>> Gerd: Are you willing to co-maintain the QEMU buildmaster with Daniel
>> and Christian?  It would be awesome if you could do this given your
>> experience running and customizing buildbot.
>
> I'll try to set aside some time for that.  Christians idea to host the
> config at github is good, that certainly makes it easier to balance
> things to more people.
>
> Another thing which would be helpful:  Any chance we can setup a
> maintainer tree mirror @ git.qemu.org?  A single repository where each
> maintainer tree shows up as a branch?

I will setup a tree based on the 'T:' fields in MAINTAINERS.  So if you
want your tree to be part of buildbot, please make sure that you have a
correct entry in MAINTAINERS.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> This would make the buildbot setup *alot* easier.  We can go for a
> AnyBranchScheduler then with BuildFactory and BuildConfig shared,
> instead of needing one BuildFactory and BuildConfig per branch.  Also
> makes the buildbot web interface less cluttered as we don't have a
> insane amount of BuildConfigs any more.  And saves some resources
> (bandwidth + diskspace) for the buildslaves.
>
> I think people who want to look what is coming or who want to test stuff
> cooking it would be a nice service too if they have a one-stop shop
> where they can get everything.
>
> cheers,
>   Gerd