<quote who="Quanah Gibson-Mount">
--On Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:18 AM +0100 Gavin Henry
<ghenry(a)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:
>
>
http://build.samba.org
>
> 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
http://build.samba.org/
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
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Senior Systems Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
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