Re: Old machine cluster for GCC compile/testing

[Sebastian Pop <sebastian dot pop at cri dot ensmp dot fr>]

Hi Laurent, 

Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> 
> So I'm asking for project proposals, that is to say people that think
> that their volunteer time to work on these old machine (scripts,
> compiling, ... under the limit of minimal external bandwidth use) is of
> some significant benefit to some free software project. 
> 

I'm proposing to automate gcc's bootstrap & regtest: for each mail
sent to patches@gcc-farm, if 'From' is in gcc-developpers and 'body'
contains a patch against some branch (ie. if it fails to apply to a
branch, just drop it and warn the user), enqueue it for validation.
The main server can be some script that monitors the availability of
cpu ressources and that distributes the patches for validation.  The
answer can be a mail with just "passed witout regressions", or "patch
causes regressions: <list of testcases that failed>".

Bandwidth usage: size of incoming mail patch + size of answer + "cvs
update -dP" every morning.

Sebastian