Solutions for the PR load problem

[Bernhard Froehlich]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:00:38 +0200, Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 10:51:01PM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>> On 09/07/2010 22:00, Shaun Amott wrote:
>> > 
>> > I'm not sure how many non-committers were aware of / given access to
>> > tb3
>> > and tb4 when they were around, but if tinderbox were used as a matter
>> > of
>> > course, it would, I believe go some way to speeding things up.
>> > 
>> 
>> So if I set up a private tinderbox and provide amd64 and i386
>> 6-/7-/8-stable logs with every PR I submit it would hasten the
>> processing of my PRs?
> 
> The more complex a port is and the more dependencies it has the more
> work a committer has to check if the PR is error-free.
> Having TB-Logs would prove that the port builds fine, and the PR is more
>  likely to be taken.

Exactly for this reason beat@ has created a Tinderbox Virtual Machine for
virtualbox. So port maintainers can test their updates in a tinderbox and
discover problems earlier without the need of a dedicated tinderbox machine
and all the setup woes.

http://vboxtindi.chruetertee.ch/

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Bernhard Froehlich
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