[Telepathy] Buildbot wishlist

[Olivier Le Thanh Duong]

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> Hi,
>
> As of pretty recently, courtesy of Sjoerd, we have a Telepathy Buildbot!
> It lives at <http://buildbot.telepathy.im/>, and on #telepathy as
> a{sv}bot. Currently it's reasonably rudimentary: it builds and runs
> tests for a couple of configurations of Gabble and one configuration of
> Wocky on i386 and amd64, and announces builds which succeed or fail on
> IRC. Adam's going to be spending some time making it do more.
>
> I've asked around a bit, and I think the priorities for improving it are:
>
> • Make it build more components: telepathy-glib, telepathy-qt4,
> mission-control, farsight, telepathy-farsight, telepathy-logger,
> Empathy, salut, haze, and idle come to mind in roughly descending order
> of priority.
> • Make it run out-of-tree builds, and run distcheck instead of just
> check. (The former failing trips up people like me who routinely build
> out of tree, and also breaks the latter, which trips up people making
> releases.)
> • Make the IRC bot more useful, by announcing who broke the build,
> providing a link to the relevant web page, and maybe keeping quiet when
> the build succeeds. (The more projects and targets it builds, the more
> annoying announcing successful builds will be.)
>
> Possible other improvements:
>
> • Make the bot poke people who break the build on XMPP. I believe the
> IRC bot uses Telepathy, so hooking it up to XMPP as well shouldn't be
> too hard. :) But maybe this is overkill.
> • Perhaps we could make it produce nightly .debs, to aid those who like
> to dogfood master?
>
> Oh Great Telepathy List: any other ideas for the buildbot?
>
I'm wondering how does one dev actually integrate his project in the build bot. Is it just a matter of providing a script for it?  Can it hande any type of project?

It would be great if we could also have our python code checked with a program such as pyflake. We could also have some check run on the spec? Maybe we could also run unit tests from there? 

Just some quick ideas and questions as I haven't checked on how the bot work yet.

  Olivier
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