Re: Builder credentials request for Gentoo/sparc

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@elastic.org>]

Hi -

> As discussed on #overseers, I'd like to start off with some easy
> builds with a Buildbot on our beefy sparc machine in Gentoo.

Nice. 

> For now, let's say normal core count should be 8, and bursts of 16,
> but we can crank that up significantly later. We'll start with just
> bzip2.  It's okay to do 3-4 builds at a time. Again, we can probably
> crank that up later.

bzip2 will produce approximately zero traffic, never mind 3-4 at a
time.  Check out https://builder.sourceware.org/buildbot/#/ for the
projects that are producing lots of buildbot traffic, and maybe choose
one or more of those.

> Is there a way for me to trigger builds on demand at first, so I can
> test if everything is working?

If you have commit access to any repo from which builds are sent to
your worker, that's one way.  I'm not sure of more directed ways.

> I believe I need a password for my end. Thanks!

Sent under separate cover.

- FChE