<quote who="Quanah Gibson-Mount">
--On Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:18 AM +0100 Gavin Henry ghenry@suretecsystems.com wrote:
Dear All,
I've mentioned this in passing to Howard and he was going to have a wee chat with the Samba guys at SambaXP about theirs:
So I popped into #samba-technical and asked about setting the above up. Few guys asked what for, and Jeremy Allison (http://samba.org/~jra/ and Google, in case you didn't know ;-) ) asked me to ping him a serious funding proposal:
So, can we put a serious one together and get a build farm!
What exactly do you have in mind when you say "build farm"? A set of systems running different OSes to test builds (AIX, Solaris, HPUX, Linux 2.6, Windows, etc)?
Exactly:
"The samba.org build farm is designed to test the configuration, build, install, and some runtime aspects of some projects hosted on samba.org in real time."
See http://build.samba.org/about.html
and
Look at the drop down at above, the list of OSes is pretty impressive.
Once we have a core infrastructure of select OSs of our choosing, we can get users to add their machines like so:
http://build.samba.org/instructions.html
The whole Samba build source, including the website front end is available to us.
Companies that are interested in getting their hardware/OS supported will more than likely sign up their machines too.
I imagine getting funding for a couple of boxs in a data center for 3 years, buying or renting 2-3 servers for build farm management node/website etc.
Then we can all chip in to manage it, or work out the cost of 1-2 days a month/week to look after it by one of the companies/users involved in OpenLDAP to maintain it.
I'll speak to the Samba guys later and get a feel for the maintainance aspect.
Gavin.
--Quanah
-- Quanah Gibson-Mount Senior Systems Software Developer ITS/Shared Application Services Stanford University GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html