Re: Multi-OS Emacs buildbot?

[Alan Third]

On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 04:58:38PM +0100, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Over the past few months, I've installed a whole bunch of VMs with
> different operating systems to help debug various problems.  Now that
> I've got them, I'm wondering whether it would be helpful to do a
> buildbot kind of thing across them all?
> 
> This can either be a lot of work if done right, or it can be done very
> simply.  Doing it right would mean automatically building on all
> commits, and notifying the committer about breakages etc...  but that's,
> like, real work, and I'm not volunteering to do that at all.
> 
> A much simpler solution would be to just write a script that ssh-es to
> all the VMs once a day, "git pull; make bootstrap; make check" and then
> make a summary report on all the tests that fail to some new Emacs
> mailing list.  I can do that; it's trivial.
> 
> It'd be...  somewhat useful?  But not really that useful?  Opinions?
> 
> (My current VM collection is FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows 10
> w/Cygwin, Macos-es catalina, mojave and high sierra (with HomeBrew),
> Macos catalina (with Macports), and Fedora.  Big Sur and Windows 10
> w/MinGW soon to follow.)

You should perhaps have a look at the gitlab CI/CD stuff that's
running on emba.gnu.org.

In theory you could install a gitlab runner on each of your VMs and
emba could push the compile jobs out to them.
-- 
Alan Third