BuildBot for Parrot

 BuildBot is a  Continuous Integration system. The normal use is to have a build master watch a source code repository (such as SVN) for changes and instruct several build slaves to build and test the software when a relevent change is detected.

There is now a  BuildBot build master for Parrot. The web status page is  http://buildbot.eigenstate.net:8040/

The buildbot at eigenstate.net polls the parrot SVN repository every 20 minutes looking for changes for the relevant branch(es.) If a change is found then the buildbot waits for five minutes of no further commits before sending messages to the slave(s) to checkout a clean copy of the source, and then to build and test it.  http://buildbot.eigenstate.net:8040/

As of January 21 2008 there are currently 4 builders configured:

• building the trunk on fedora core 6 on x86_64
• building the trunk on ubuntu-ppc
• building the trunk on darwin-ppc
• building branch pdd17pmc on fedora core 6 on x86_64

Adding Build Slaves

If you would like to contribute a new build slave please contact Matisse Enzer <matisse@…>

BuildBot Status

Current forms of status information available for the parrot buildbot:

• Web page
• Email list
• IRC

Web Status Page

The web status page is available at:  http://buildbot.eigenstate.net:8040/

Email List

Andy Armstrong has set up a list to which we are sending all the build results:  http://hexten.net/mailman/listinfo/parrot-reports

IRC Bot

Build status information is also available from a bot on "irc.perl.org #parrot"< irc://irc.perl.org/parrot>. The bot name is *buildbot*. You have to ask it for status info - it will not automatically announce builds (yet.)

To see current status of known builders:

  /msg buildbot status

to watch a currently running build (get builder names from 'status'):

  /msg buildbot watch {builder-name}

for example:

  /msg buildbot watch ubuntu-ppc-trunk

Other Links

•  Continuous Integration on the Perl QA Wiki