Re: Nightly stable builds [Was: fec: Fix build for MCF5272]

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 06:46:41PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:21:01AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 16:24 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 03:15:19PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 01:43:48PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:42:36AM -0300, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Guenter,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > FYI
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > I asked Stephen to include m5272c3_defconfig as part of his daily
> > > > > > build and now it is available:
> > > > > > http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/buildresult/8991795/
> > > > > > 
> > > > > Nice front-end.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Greg, would it be useful to set up something similar for pending stable builds ?
> > > > > I have back-end code doing that running on one of my servers at home, but no
> > > > > web front-end.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Any idea whom to talk to to set this up ? Stephen ? Michael ?
> > > > 
> > > > I have no idea.  I publish the stable build patches all publically, so a
> > > > build-bot could easily be built using it, which would be great to have.
> > > > 
> > > The build-bot isn't the problem; as I mentioned above, I already have one
> > > running. I was referring to a web front-end for it.
> > 
> > Hi Guenter,
> > 
> > Actually I hate the web front end, but that's because I wrote it :)
> > 
> > It's pretty, but it doesn't scale very well, "one of these days" I'll
> > rewrite it. My plan is to actually just make it a frontend for buildbot
> > - but I never have time :)
> > 
> Time is my problem too ... but then it is more costly for me if a problem
> makes it into a release, so I have some interest in getting builds
> (and at some point run tests) automated as much as possible.
> 
> > We already build the published stable branches, see:
> >   http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/branch/
> > 
> > But I think you're talking about building the patch queues before they
> > go into git? If so the only hurdle would be someone publishing a git
> 
> Yes, that is the idea.
> 
> > tree of them - kisskb only knows how to build git trees.
> > 
> I "solved" that problem by creating a front-end to my own nightly build script,
> which also works on git repos. Essentially it takes the stable queue from Greg's
> repo on kernel.org, executes quiltimport on top of the respective stable
> branch, and then starts the actual build script.
> 
> Would it help if I manage to automate that and publish the resulting branches in
> a repository on kernel.org, say, on a nightly basis ?
> 
> Another key advantage of having a git repository would be that it would trigger
> auto-builds as well as smatch runs by others, so test coverage would be much
> better than today.
> 
> Greg, would it be ok with you if I create such a repository, or would you want
> to create and manage one yourself ? 

I don't want to create any such repo, so feel free to do it yourself :)

thanks,

greg k-h