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

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Autor: Todd Lyons
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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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If you want them to accept your mail and manage it the way you want,
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