[Kerncomp-devel] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Automated Kernel Build Regression Testing

[Ian W. <ia...@ge...>]

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:30:49PM +0200, Jan Dittmer wrote:
> You know about ARMLinux Kautobuild? [1] That's also pretty far
> developed and does _lots_ of configs. Though arm is somewhat quicker
> to build than ia64.

Yep, that's another interesting one; they have some nice graphs but
I'm not sure how useful they are.  Again an RSS feed or email would be
handy.

> What are the goals any of this kerncomp project anyways? Just collecting
> resources or were you planning on developing _the_ kernel compile and
> runtime test application or just not really decided yet?

As a minimum I hoped we could keep interesting scripts together to
save someone else who wanted to set up an autobuild doing the whole
thing over again.  

I wonder if there is demand for one combined project or if everyone
has domain-specific issues they like to keep in their own project?
For example, we're very interested in making sure our various patches
apply to the absolute latest kernel.  Fixing problems the next morning
is *much* better than waiting for the next -rc release since you'll
just end up with all your problems combined.  For others this might
not be such an issue.

If a few people said they were interested, I think the first step
would be some sort of design document that details everything we want
it to do, and a rough framework of how it would do it.

At this stage, I would take interest as people just sending me their
ideas.

> Yes, I consider that, but I've to do at least a bit clean up before.
> Currently the code state is just too embarrassing.

Ahh, I know the feeling.  The good thing about posting embarrassing
code is that it acts as a catalyst for someone else to do the work for
you :) As Alan Cox once said, nothing gets a problem fixed faster than
an obviously incorrect patch; people just can't resist showing you the
right way!

-i