[Buildbot-devel] repo and gerrit support to buildbot

[Pierre Tardy]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Dustin Sallings <dustin at spy.net> wrote:
> I won't be able to just yet, but I might be able to give it a go in a week
> or two.
No problem, there is no hurry. It is early release I did to get some
code review before continuing.

> gerrit is generally awesome regardless of android (I use it in my own
> instance).  It fits with buildbot perfectly since we have to have
> verification and review on every commit.  Negative verification from
> buildbot on each iteration of each change is one of our internal dreams.
>  (that and sleeping so we can have real dreams)

Of course this is the goal of all of this. Be able to build and test
automatically each change request, before they are allowed to be
merged.

The test part might be a bit trickier. It is not possible to run the
test on the same machine as the build.
Build machines are typically big virtualised servers, and test machine
are not very power powerful lab machines hooked up to lab equipment
and targetted hardware.

Do you think it possible to use a status object to trigger a change
event, that can trigger a builder which is actually only tester
(download result of build and run tests on embedded hw)

Pierre