[Libreoffice-qa] minutes of ESC call ...

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Francois Tigeot <ftigeot at wolfpond.org> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 04:11:18PM +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:
>>
>> * tinderboxen / status (Norbert)
>>       + bytemark machine #2
>>               + working on *BSD in virtualbox with little
>>                 joy help appreciated (Norbert)
>>               + need 3x BSD virtual-boxes (ideally)
>
> I'd like to know a bit more about this item; Norbert, would you prefer real
> boxes if possible ?

We do not have the resources for that.. but if you volunteer such a
box... sure, by all means...
what is needed ?
- a box that do build, preferably in reasonable time... but since
right now there are no *BSD tinderbox, anytime is more reasonable than
+inf :-)
- download the contrib/buildbot repo  :
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/buildbot/
- read http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/buildbot/tree/README.tinbuild2
- bear in mind that the tinbuild2 script and dep and un-apologetically
bash. I have zero interest in wasting time to get to the lowest common
denominator. (*)
- look at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Tinderbox#List_of_registered_Tinderboxes
and when the time comes, register your box there... be mindful of the
naming convention...
- once all that is up and running, and if there is a need/benefit to
have dailies uploaded, then we will work on the next step to get the
right credential to do that.


Norbert

(*) as tinbuild2 has never been exercised aaik on *BSD platform, there
may-be some quirk. fortunately tinbuil2 has a way to do 'platform
overload' look at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/buildbot/tree/bin/tinbuild_internals_Darwin.sh
for such example for MacOS
see the comment in the top of
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/contrib/buildbot/tree/bin/tinbuild2
for some more explanations