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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of vampire - savannah.nongnu.org
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Jaime E . Villate |
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Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of vampire - savannah.nongnu.org |
Date: |
Thu, 22 May 2003 10:40:59 +0100 |
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Hi,
please e-mail me a copy of whatever source code you have at the moment. It
does not matter if it is not working; I just want to give you some advice on
licensing issues, before your project gets approved.
Regards,
Jaime
On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 08:34:54AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
>
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
>
>
> Maxime Biais <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License:
> Package: vampire
> System name: vampire
> Type: non-GNU
>
> Description:
> Vampire is a remote package testing tool written in python. It takes an
> Autotools generated tarball, uploads it on several machines, configures it,
> runs a check sequence (usually make distcheck) and returns the results. It is
> designed to be flexible enough to run checks on differents systems and
> environments.
>
> Features of vampire :
> * Remote access by ssh.
> * Source upload by scp, link (for nfs use) and custom command (wget for
> example).
> * Configurable pool of machines (environment variables, configure flags,
> ...).
> * Pool of machines. It should be possible to specify several hosts with
> the same configuration/options, and let Vampire choose the best available
> host among the list.
> * Configuration of schedule of host availability. It should be possible
> to give the hours of availability of the machines and restrict their use to
> their free time.
> * Check the load average of machines to determine their availability.
> * Check a list of packages. Vampire should be able to test a pool of
> tarballs on a pool of hosts, optimizing the dispatch of the tasks.
> * Good control on what\'s happening. If Vampire is running tests, it
> should be possible to check the hosts involved and to stop using a particular
> host.
> * Give good statistics and formatted output (HTML, mail).
> * Minimal requirements for remote hosts. In order to use a maximal amount
> of hosts easily, it is important that Vampire does not require dedicated
> clients or sophisticated programs on the remote hosts. Currently, it only
> needs a shell and one network access (ssh) for interactive sessions and one
> for tarball uploading (scp, http, ftp, nfs).
> * While being very powerful and precise, the configuration has to remain
> quite simple by factorizing default or common settings.
>
>
>
> more information:
> (http://www.lrde.epita.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Projects/Vampire)
>
> Other Software Required:
> python interpreter