[Buildbot-devel] The Meta Buildbot

[Stephen Dicks]

Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
> metabuildbot is hosted on Brian's systems, to which I don't have
> access just yet.  I would *love* to have you set this up, particularly
> if it's configured in some publicly-accessible fashion, and allows
> others to submit buildslaves.
>   
Sounds like another mini-project...:-)
> I don't think SourceForge can host a long-running daemon like this, so
> I imagine that someone will need to host the buildmaster.  I can do
> this on my systems, but those are behind a cable modem and thus not
> terribly reliable.  If someone has a bit of business bandwidth to
> share for the purpose, that would be better.
>   
I can provide that no problem.
> We should probably set up a CNAME that the buildslaves connect to, so
> that if we must move the master to another host, the buildslaves need
> not be reconfigured (just restarted).  I think Brian can allocate a
> subdomain of buildbot.net to this purpose.
>
> The buildbot should watch the github repository, and preferably only
> the 'master' branch (and maybe 'one-oh').  Let's also put the
> configuration in a branch on github.
>   
sounds like a plan. We could really do with some buildslave machines - I 
don't have access to MacOS but I have lots of PC hardware (noise 
permitting that is)