QEMU buildbot maintenance state (was: Re: KVM call agenda for 2013-01-29)

[Daniel Gollub <gollub@b1-systems.de>]

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Hi Andreas,

thanks for bringing this topic up.

January was quite busy month for me so far I could only handle minor changes 
on the buildbot. I hesitate to make larger changes to avoid I break other 
stuff. So I just queued them up once I have more time (beginning in February 
or so)

I bounced now all open request from you and the suggestion of Gerd (with 
regards to append the log on the mail) to Christian Berendt - who is also 
maintaining the buildbot on buildbot.b1-systems.de

On Monday, January 28, 2013 02:02:27 PM Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 28.01.2013 11:59, schrieb Juan Quintela:
> > Please send in any agenda topics you are interested in.
> 
> Buildbot situation:
> * Trees are not being added/updated in a timely fashion

Primary reason why I hesitated to add new trees in the last weeks is pretty 
simple:
 - we run out of buildslave power
 - lack of time to setup new buildslaves


If anyone has some spare time and could provide us for a longer period 
buildslaves please drop me and Christian a mail for further instruction.



> * Insufficient build test coverage of trees (ppc, s390x, MinGW, BSD)
> 
> http://buildbot.b1-systems.de/qemu/builders


With regards to the build test coverage for all trees we would have to 
refactor the configuration a lot to make it more easier to add and maintain it 
in an easy way.

If you have some time left feel free to come up with a patch for that.
This is on my list - but it requires more time then I have available right now 
to make it "right".


(The failing macosx buildslave is known issue on the MacOSX site. The 
maintainer has also to investigate that at some later point due to lack of 
sufficient time.)


> 
> Stefan H. has access to some of the build slaves but not to the main
> buildbot server for configuration, it seems.

JFYI, the main buildbot configuration which controls everything (beside 
buildslave credentials) is accessible to everyone:
http://people.b1-systems.de/~gollub/buildbot/

If you are familiar with buildbot feel free to incorporate your suggested 
changes directly on a copy and send me or Christian the diff so we just have 
to review and apply it.

> 
> If Daniel does not have sufficient time to administer it, can we maybe
> have that set up on qemu.org instead, with more than one person that has
> access to it?

JFYI, I just requested if I am allowed to grant Stefan root access to our box. 
I would not mind to give him access - but need to check back with our IT 
first.

Best Regards,
Daniel

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