Continuous Integration - rtbf64c

[Chris Johns]

On 4/05/12 3:35 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 05/04/2012 04:40 AM, Chris Johns wrote:
>
>> The RTEMS server, rtbf64c, purchased to perform this task,
> The server was purchased to supply sufficient performance to the
> services provided by rtems.org.
>
> At the time of the purchase, this was building and testing the
> toolchains and was not buildbot.
>

That was not my understanding. It has been used for that purpose because 
we do not have any continuous integration infrastructure ready to use 
it. There is a need for continuous integration and it places a high 
demand on resources. Tool are just one part of the project, not the sole 
focus. If a tools build takes a little longer to complete that is not a 
huge issue. Patches need to be checked in a timely manner.

>
>> will be taken
>> off line in 48 hours time and reconfigured to support the continuous
>> integration effort. If you have access to the machine and have anything
>> you wish to keep please move it to another machine.
> What does this mean technically?
>
> Does this mean you are going to install a different OS?
>

Yes.

>> Any testing or tool building tasks that are not critical should look to
>> using the other hardware we have available.
> If this is what I think it is, this will be the end of the RTEMS
> toolchain binaries.

Why ? There are other machines. Why are building the binary tools 
packages so dependent on that specific machine ?

Chris