From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerry Van Baren Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:28:37 -0500 Subject: [U-Boot] [RFC] Build errors in u-boot mainline and daily builds In-Reply-To: <20090103151852.45E798387CDB@gemini.denx.de> References: <3efb10970901030310r7cfc1245g97ac0db4375ddc33@mail.gmail.com> <20090103151852.45E798387CDB@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <495FA045.6050909@gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Remy, > > In message <3efb10970901030310r7cfc1245g97ac0db4375ddc33@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: >> I started a server to do only daily builds of all U-boot board >> configurations. (currently on a old slow box, but it works, it takes >> about 2 hours to build all boards for ARM only) That's still not bad. > I appreciate your efforts. Actually this is something everybody is > supposed to do before submitting a patch, and especially the > custodians before submitting a pull request. > > Unfortually, that's theory only :-( An unenforceable demand. :-( A build machine is the pragmatic solution, but it puts the burden on the build machine maintainer. :-/ Thanks for volunteering, Remy. :-) Side note: I've been looking at BuildBot but haven't done anything useful. I've looked at CruiseControl a few times and then I see how it does the control logic in (haxtended) XML. Bleah! [snip] >> Further, is there any interest to make the daily build results public? >> * Is it appreciated if I post the build results in a daily post to the >> mailinglist, _if_ there is a build failure? (No news is good news) >> What format is preferred? > > Please do not post such results here. Wolfgang: I would suggest another mailman list. Interested parties can subscribe to it, disinterested parties can look in the list archives if they need to. There probably isn't a need for long term archives, say 6 months (~2-3 releases). >> * Or is it preferred to post the results on a website? > > Yes, that would be beter, IMO. Web sites are awfully easy to ignore/forget. :-/ > Best regards, > > Wolfgang Denk Ditto, gvb