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

Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Apr 20 10:06:08 PDT 2017


> 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 <mailto:mehdi.amini at apple.com>> wrote:
> What would be the status of these buildbots? Is it for your private usage? 
> 
> I intend for them to be public Windows buildbots for libc++.


I’m not sure it’d be OK to send blame email to contributors based on this though.

— 
Mehdi


> 
> Otherwise having “project' bots” using a non-official mirror may sound like a strange situation to me.
> 
> 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.
>  
> 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.
> 
> (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.
> 
> /Eric
> 
> 
>> Mehdi
> 
>> On Apr 19, 2017, at 5:04 PM, Eric Fiselier via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto: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 <mailto:eric at efcs.ca>> wrote:
>> Hi Will,
>> 
>> I would like to request collaborator permissions for the Libc++ github mirror.
>> 
>> 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 <http://llvm.org/git/libcxx.git>, but this seems harder to both do and maintain.
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>> /Eric
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