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[john gale]

On Feb 10, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

>> Agreed, this is very high on my list.
>>
>> I'd also like to be able to subscribe a single buildslave to multiple
>> buildmasters.
>>
>
> Out of curiosity, what is the rationale for this ? While I can see it
> being hard to maintain multiple buildmasters, build slaves are cheap,
> and allowing them to serve multiple projects just complicates things
> without much benefit.



Build slaves aren't always cheap.  Depending on what you're testing,  
ideally you'd want one machine for each build slave.  Registering  
multiple build slaves per machine can start running on each others  
toes, especially when you're testing system software.

	~ john

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