[squeak-dev] Call for volunteering of build slaves

Edgar J. De Cleene edgardec2005 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 12 12:52:41 UTC 2013




On 4/12/13 9:15 AM, "Frank Shearar" <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:

> We have a host of CI jobs running all in-image tests, loading various
> packages into various Squeak versions and running same on various VMs.
> We attempt to build the bleeding edge Interpreter and Cog VMs. We'd
> like to do even more.
> 
> All this requires machinery. We have build.squeak.org running jobs,
> I've donated a FreeBSD slave and an OS X slave. We don't have any
> Windows slaves, and we really need several more Linux build slaves to
> take up the strain of the main jobs.
> 
> Who would be willing to run builds on behalf of the community?
> 
> 
> The fine print
> --------------
> As long as folk don't mind the potential security risks (Jenkins will
> have the right to run arbitrary commands on the slave under its user
> account), it's easy to set up.
> 
> Easiest to set up are machines into which Jenkins can ssh: they just
> require a user account and an SSH keypair. Machines running behind
> NATs are also fine: I have a script prepared that will run the Jenkins
> slave. (Of course that means that if you want to run the slave 24/7
> you'd need to set up your own rc.d/system/init.d/whatever to keep the
> process up.)
> 
> Any takers?
> 
> frank

I have one for you, but you don't use it...


Edgar




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