Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:53:15 -0800 | From | cliff white <> | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: Minutes from OSDL talk at LSE call today |
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On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:44:54 -0800 Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:45:17PM -0800, cliff white wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 19:35:35 -0800 > > Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:20:29PM -0800, Hanna Linder wrote: > > > > The Mozilla Tinderbox is based on CVS and can do fancy things with > > > > triggers. The kernel one is not as fancy because they are still > > > > working out issues with BK. > > > > > > If we could get a list of these issues we'll try and see what we can do > > > to help. My response has been a bit spotty lately, I've needed to take > > > some personal time, so pinging support@bitmover.com is more likely to > > > get you help. > > > > We've exchanged some email with support@bitmover.com, and they've been > > a great help. Really, there are two things. > > > > The first is triggers. The Mozilla tinderbox is driven by triggers from > > CVS commits. I believe that triggers are resevered for the commercial > > version of BK. > > That's not true. Trigger support is identical in both versions. > > > However, unlike CVS, BK has a nice way of asking the remote repository > > if new changes exist, so we really don't need a trigger to tell us when > > to start a build. > > Right. Your problem is deciding which trees you want to track. There is > Linus/Marcelo trees but there are probably another 200+ trees of the kernel > on bkbits.net and who knows how many elsewhere (we've counted over 10,000 > before we stopped counting). Obviously you don't want to track all of those > but some of them might be interesting. > > > The main issue here is finding the proper syntax for the bkweb url so > > we get all of the changesets included in the commit. We've recieved a > > few examples from your support people, and we're using one currently. > > So are there any open issues? The call implied there were.
I don't think there are any open issues for BK. The tinderbox crew still has some work to do. cliffw
> -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm >
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