Re: Multi-OS Emacs buildbot?

[Michael Albinus]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

Hi Lars,

> 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.)

We have the CI infrastructure on emba.gnu.org. Looks like your VMs are
perfect candidates for GitLab runners from that.

<https://emba.gnu.org/emacs/emacs/pipelines>

<https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/>

Best regards, Michael.