Re: Request for help with the Buildbot [was: Re: Status of GDB buildbots]

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@sergiodj.net>]

On Thursday, August 27 2020, Luis Machado wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 8/25/20 11:47 AM, Sergio Durigan Junior via Gdb wrote:
>> On Tuesday, August 25 2020, Rainer Orth wrote:
>>
>>> Rainer Orth <ro@CeBiTec.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
>>>
>>>> It seems regular scheduled runs of the GDB buildbots stopped about a
>>>> month ago.  AFAICS all runs since (which are only a few) are for the
>>>> racy and try_ssh schedulers only, nothing for master.
>>>>
>>>> I've initially observed this on the Solaris buildbots, but the others
>>>> seem to be equally affected.  For the Solaris bots, there are regular
>>>> keepalive messages in twistd.log, but nothing else.
>>>
>>> I've never received a reply on this one and now found that Sergio has
>>> left RedHat.  Given that the buildbots have been mostly idle for a month
>>> or two: is there anyone to look into this?
>>
>> Hi Rainer,
>>
>> Sorry about the disappearance; indeed I'm not at RH anymore, and
>> although I'm trying to follow gdb-patches, I'm not subscribed to gdb@
>> anymore, which means I completely missed your message :-/.
>
> Is this something RH will pick up or is it a best-effort personal
> contribution of yours?

It was part of my duties, but I don't know if RH will be able to
allocate someone else to maintain the service.

>> Anyway, I was not aware of this problem with our buildbot.  I thought
>> I'd be able to maintain it while doing my other job, but as it turns out
>> it's just too much.  So I'm hijacking this thread and turning it into a
>> request for help with our Buildbot.
>>
>> I don't know how much value the Buildbot still brings to the community.
>> I know a few people were relying heavily on it because of the try build
>> feature, but I'm not sure if they still use it.  That's something for
>> the community to discuss, I think.
>
> I can state it brings pretty good value to arm-linux/aarch64-linux
> testing. I've been noticing an influx of regressions from pushed
> patches that have not been properly exercised on aarch64-linux, which
> is unfortunate.
>
> Ideally we'd have a CI loop integrated with some patch reviewing
> system (gerrit was great in this regard), but the buildbot is already
> a great improvement over not having anything.

Right, I agree.  And I really wish I had more time to maintain it, but,
at least for now, I don't.  I still intend to be involved in the
Buildbot effort, and will help whoever wants to co-maintain it with me,
of course.

Thanks,

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