[Buildroot] Call for more autobuilder machines

[Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>]

Dear Buildroot community members,

Our "autobuilder" infrastructure, whose results are presented at
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/, and sent on a daily basis to the
mailing list and individual developers, is critical to the proper
testing of Buildroot.

Unfortunately, over recent times, less and less machines have been
contributing build results, to the point where we only test 100-120
builds per day, which is not enough to have good coverage.

Indeed, the builds are done by various machines that contribute their
results to autobuild.buildroot.net. Therefore, the way to increase the
number of builds done per day is to increase the number of machines
that contributes to the build.

So this e-mail is a call for participation: if you have some machines
that could be used to run Buildroot builds 24/7, or at least during the
night and/or week-end, it would be useful.

However, beware that it only makes sense to contribute if you have a
sufficiently powerful machine at hand: enough RAM, fast storage,
recently recent CPU. At least 4 cores (not threads), 32 GB of RAM, and
SSD/NVMe.

If you are interested in contributing to this, contact us and we will
give you the details. It's pretty much as simple as running
https://git.buildroot.org/buildroot-test/tree/scripts/autobuild-run on
your machine, as an unprivileged user (no root/sudo access needed), and
that's it.

Thanks a lot for your collaboration!

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, co-owner and CEO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering and training
https://bootlin.com
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