On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Maarten Lankhorst m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com wrote:
I'm a bit opposed, since there are 3 or 4 such projects already. So there has to be big advantage to your system if you want to introduce another.
What would be the advantage of buildbot over say, gre' s winetestbot, which allows you to test your patches, the build project dan did, or cxtest?
It's standardized, i.e. it's winning the distributed build-and-test harness race. So people familiar with it from other projects can expand our test infrastructure by adding a new slave without having to learn yet another strange harness that was cobbled together in sh or perl. There's even enough development going on in buildtestbot that it has a decent amount of polish.
(So, for instance, it would make it easy for a bunch of people to add new slaves in their bedrooms. Wait, that doesn't sound right :-) - Dan