4:18 p.m.
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:
<snip irc>
<wanon> did someone ask for money.... ?
<ghenry> wanon: got some? ;-)
<wanon> This is OpenLDAP right ?
<ghenry> yup
<wanon> put a proposal togther. A *serious* one, and mail it to me.
<ghenry> wanon: Will do
<ghenry> wanon: Tips?
<ghenry> wanon: Should I google for your address? ;-)
<ghenry> heh
<wanon> Ask for a concrete amount, and give explicit reasons why you want it.
<ghenry> Business plan? Or one pager?
<wanon> One pager to start.
<ghenry> Ok. Google funding, correct?
<ghenry> excuse me if I should know, sorry
<wanon> yep
<ghenry> would you be kind enough to msg me your e-mail?
<wanon> just google for it.
<ghenry> heh, ok
<wanon> or use my samba.org address
* abartlet remembers the days when we didn't know who wanon was :-)
<ghenry> So, funding proposal for OpenLDAP Build Farm. Thanks wanon
<ghenry> going to post to openldap-devel then go from there with rest of
team. thanks again all (abartlet wanon)
<wanon> ok, works for me !
So, can we put a serious one together and get a build farm!
Thanks,
Gavin.
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7:17 p.m.
--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)?
--Quanah
--
Quanah Gibson-Mount
Senior Systems Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html
11:50 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:17:01PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>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)?
In the hope this is not again an abuse of the list: If you
take a look at http://build.samba.org/ the hosts listed
there regularly download the latest sources for several
projects, compile them and run tests on them. The
connectivity requirements for the hosts are very minimal:
They only need to be able to rsync out. This has helped us
(the Samba Team) big ways for portability, because many
volunteers can donate free cycles.
Volker
5:44 a.m.
Volker Lendecke wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:17:01PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>> 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)?
In the hope this is not again an abuse of the list: If you
take a look at http://build.samba.org/ the hosts listed
there regularly download the latest sources for several
projects, compile them and run tests on them. The
connectivity requirements for the hosts are very minimal:
They only need to be able to rsync out. This has helped us
(the Samba Team) big ways for portability, because many
volunteers can donate free cycles.
This is unquestionably a great idea, one that we need to pursue, and one
that I plan to chat with you Samba guys about in more detail soon. Some
of the ideas we've been planning (self-tuning adaptive caching, etc.)
require platform-specific knowledge at runtime and it's only going to
fly if we can test adequately on a wide range of platforms.
--
-- Howard Chu
Chief Architect, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com
Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/
6:12 a.m.
<quote who="Volker Lendecke">
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:17:01PM -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> >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)?
In the hope this is not again an abuse of the list: If you
take a look at http://build.samba.org/ the hosts listed
there regularly download the latest sources for several
projects, compile them and run tests on them. The
connectivity requirements for the hosts are very minimal:
They only need to be able to rsync out. This has helped us
(the Samba Team) big ways for portability, because many
volunteers can donate free cycles.
Volker
Exactly. I think this is a must for the OpenLDAP Project and that we
really need to make a good proposal for Jerry to take to Google.
Gavin.
--
Kind Regards,
Gavin Henry.
Managing Director.
T +44 (0) 1224 279484
M +44 (0) 7930 323266
F +44 (0) 1224 824887
E ghenry(a)suretecsystems.com
Open Source. Open Solutions(tm).
http://www.suretecsystems.com/
2:18 a.m.
<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
--
Quanah Gibson-Mount
Senior Systems Software Developer
ITS/Shared Application Services
Stanford University
GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html
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