[PREP] Last Rounds for Parrot 0.9.1

Allison Randal allison at parrot.org
Sun Mar 8 18:28:24 UTC 2009


Michael Peters wrote:
> Will Coleda wrote:
> 
>> This is a good argument for making it easier to let people test
>> branches. Perhaps smolder reports via buildbot would be a way to
>> address this?
> 
> That was my original goal but for which I haven't had time recently. If 
> you setup the buildbot master properly then slaves will just run 
> whatever they are told to. Then as development on an important branch 
> becomes mature you can tell the master to run tests for it and the 
> slaves will comply. And when the branch has been merged you can remove 
> it from the master's config.
> 
> This beats trying to wrangle volunteers to constantly update their smoke 
> setups. Instead you just wrangle once for buildbot slaves and then off 
> you go.

An ideal solution. Thanks!

Allison


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