Re: Build farm

Andrew Dunstan wrote:

>
>
> Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
>
>> Le Vendredi 21 Novembre 2003 19:47, Tom Lane a écrit :
>>
>>
>>> I think the main value of a build farm is that we'd get nearly
>>> immediate
>>> feedback about the majority of simple porting problems. Your previous
>>> arguments that it wouldn't smoke everything out are certainly valid ---
>>> but we wouldn't abandon the regression tests just because they don't
>>> find everything. Immediate feedback is good because a patch can be
>>> fixed while it's still fresh in the author's mind.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Dear friends,
>>
>> We have a small build farm for pgAdmin covering Win32, FreeBSD and
>> most GNU/
>> Linux systems. See
>> http://www.pgadmin.org/pgadmin3/download.php#snapshots
>>
>> The advantage are immediate feedback and correction of problems.
>> Also, in a release cycle, developers and translators are quite
>> motivated to see their work published fast.
>> Of course, it is always hard to "mesure" the real impact of a build
>> farm. My opinion it that it is quite positive, as it helps tighten
>> the links between people, which is free software is mostly about.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Right. But I think we have been talking about using the build farm to
> do test builds rather than to provide snapshots. I'd be very wary of
> providing arbitrary snapshots of postgres, whereas I'd be prepared to
> try a snapshot of pgadmin3 under certain circumstances. (Also,
> building your own snapshot of postgres is somewhat easier than
> building your own snapshot of pgadmin3).

Testing a build and creating a snapshot compilation is quite the same,
just a different name and announcement. I agree that using a pgadmin
snapshot is different from pgsql, somebody using a bleeding edge pgsql
version should be prepared to compile it on his own machine.

And a tiny correction: The farm member for win32 is my machine, and it's
operated manually :-)

Regards,
Andreas