Re: [exim] Request for applicants to join Exim Build Farm

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Author: Todd Lyons
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To: Exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Request for applicants to join Exim Build Farm
BTW, the DS3 that this server connects through is currently flapping,
far more off than on, and the on bursts are shortlived, typically less
than a second. VZ will be doing a line test "soon", for whatever
value of telco "soon" applies. Hopefully it will stabilize soon.

...Todd


On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Todd Lyons <tlyons@???> wrote:
> Hello all, we have a build farm which we have set up to have multiple
> OS/distributions/versions build the latest exim source code. This
> allows us developers to relatively quickly see if any changes we
> commit are going to break anything on systems other than those on
> which we write code.
>
> If you look at the list of systems which are currently in it, it's
> very heavily populated by Linux boxen. We would like to ask anybody
> with a Unix based system who can afford a little bit of space, able to
> install development packages required to compile, and a periodic cron
> job to please consider joining the build farm. It will greatly help
> our coverage. There are no Suse boxen on the list either, so we'd
> also appreciate someone with a Suse system joining. Multiple OS
> versions are also welcome as it helps to know when we are breaking
> things on older OS's.
>
> Steps:
> 1. Get the build farm software up and running, following the detailed
> instructions at
> https://github.com/mrballcb/exim-build-farm-client/wiki/Installation .
> I just added another host to the build farm over the weekend and it
> took me 20 minutes.
> 2. Once you can manually run a build (even if it fails), submit a
> request to join at
> http://eximbuild.mrball.net/cgi-bin/register-form.pl
> 3. The submission creates a temporary, random name. Send me an email
> with a hostname that you would like to use for the machine you
> submitted. Use the email you submitted the host with so I can make
> sure I activate and apply the name to the correct submitted host.
> 4. If there are build errors that we determine are due to missing
> packages and/or configuration issues, we'll email you (or hit you up
> in #exim irc channel on Freenode) asking for additional packages or
> build configuration settings.
>
> Email me or hit me in #exim on Freenode if you have questions.
>
> ...Todd
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