[llvm-dev] Permissions for llvm-mirror - Setting up Libc++ Appveyor builders

[Eric Fiselier via cfe-commits]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote:

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> On Apr 20, 2017, at 12:39 AM, Eric Fiselier <eric at efcs.ca> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com>
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>> What would be the status of these buildbots? Is it for your private
>> usage?
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> I intend for them to be public Windows buildbots for libc++.
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> I’m not sure it’d be OK to send blame email to contributors based on this
> though.
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I don't see why not (at least once the bot is stable). Can you elaborate?

/Eric


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> Mehdi
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> Otherwise having “project' bots” using a non-official mirror may sound
>> like a strange situation to me.
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> I agree it isn't ideal, but when/if LLVM moves to github it will be
> trivial to re-configure for the official repositories.
> I considered a number of other ways to setup Appveyor but I concluded this
> was the best/easiest way to do it.
> The other options I considered for configuring Appveyor are:
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> (1) Use the official LLVM github mirrors.
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> This has the issue of requiring the implementation of custom Git webhooks,
> which would require
> modifying and maintaining changes to the existing LLVM Git infrastructure,
> which in itself
> would require getting access to the LLVM servers to make the changes.
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> (2) Setup my own ever more unofficial github mirror
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> This has all the same problems as using the existing github mirrors but it
> requires
> me to configure and maintain my own mirror, which is non-trivial.
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> (3) Don't use Appveyor at all
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> This requires finding Windows hardware to host the bots, which is the main
> reason
> I chose Appveyor to begin with. Even if hardware was available I would
> prefer using
> Appveyor since it provides more dominion over the environment than I think
> donated hardware could.
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> /Eric
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>> Mehdi
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>> On Apr 19, 2017, at 5:04 PM, Eric Fiselier via llvm-dev <
>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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>> Adding cfe-dev list...
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>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Eric Fiselier <eric at efcs.ca> wrote:
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>>> Hi Will,
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>>> I would like to request collaborator permissions for the Libc++ github
>>> mirror.
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>>> I plan to use the access to setup Appveyor buildbots for libc++. In
>>> order to do this I need to be listed as a collaborator on Github.
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>>> The alternative to Github access would be setting up the correct
>>> webhooks for llvm.org/git/libcxx.git, but this seems harder to both do
>>> and maintain.
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>>> /Eric
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