[Python-Dev] Possible language summit topic: buildbots (original) (raw)

ssteinerX@gmail.com ssteinerx at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 20:19:05 CET 2009

On Oct 25, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

I've been trying to get some feedback about firing up buildbots on Cloud Servers for a while now and haven't had much luck. I'd love to find a way of having buildbots come to life, report to the mother ship, do the build, then go away 'till next time they're required. I'm not quite sure whom you have been trying to get feedback from, and can't quite picture your proposed setup from above description.

I posted a couple of messages on testing-in-python, and have sent
around some queries to others that I know are using buildbot type
setups with various tools/platforms, not necessarily Python.

In any case, ISTM that your approach isn't compatible with how buildbot works today (not sure whether you are aware of that): a build slave needs to stay connected all the time, so that the build master can trigger a build when necessary.

So if your setup requires the slaves to shut down after a build, I don't think this can possibly work.

It can't possibly work within the way the Python buildbot structure
currently works, as I understand it so far.

What I'm implementing is less of a 'continuous integration' tool like
you would use for something like Python itself, and more of a testing
tool for things that have to be installed on multiple versions of
Python, on multiple platforms.

I don't need to know that it works on every checkin, just every once
in a while I'd like to start from scratch and make sure everything
still works on all supported versions of Python on all the platforms I
test on and cloud servers are great for this since I'll usually only
need them for an hour or so.

S

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