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

[Reid Kleckner via llvm-dev]

I'm definitely in favor of efforts to defragment our many CI systems, but I
also don't want to stop people from doing more testing. :)

If AppVeyor is providing free testing resource to OSS projects, then great,
let's try using it and see how it goes.

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Mike Edwards via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> Fragmentation of the bots is not ideal.  While I totally understand Eric's
> reasoning for doing so, and am delighted to see  another Windows bot
> helping to ensure quality code, I think this is a bit of a slippery slope.
> We already have the main Buildbots, Green Dragon, Chapuni's Bots, a myriad
> of private bots and now this new bot.  I don't think it is reasonable to
> ask people to have to visit several different places to check if their
> commit broke something.  Anecdotally, I find many people will only look at
> lab.llvm.org:8011.  They will check Green Dragon if they get an email and
> then only if the email does not get lost in the noise.  Some folks are
> regular users of bb.pgr.jp but the actual number or regular visitors I
> don't know.
>
> Perhaps it would be a more beneficial discussion to talk about putting
> together some type of portal which displays results from all the CI systems
> in one place?  I for one would love an interface which would be able to
> show any given commit and how is has performed across the board.  Something
> like this could possibly allow for anyone to stand up a bot or CI
> infrastructure of their choosing and then have that system integrated in a
> common reporting platform so it is useful and accessible to everyone.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Mike
>
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Mehdi Amini via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 20, 2017, at 7:03 PM, Eric Fiselier <eric at efcs.ca> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 20, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Eric Fiselier <eric at efcs.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 20, 2017, at 12:39 AM, Eric Fiselier <eric at efcs.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Mehdi Amini <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.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't see why not (at least once the bot is stable). Can you elaborate?
>>>
>>>
>>> I don’t think there is a precedent for having a bot that does not
>>> checkout from SVN and email using the canonical SVN revision number.
>>>
>>
>> I understand share your concern about the emails using nonsensical git
>> hashes as opposed to SVN revision numbers.
>> Apart from that I have no idea why the version control used by the CI
>> matters. It should have to effect on the build or the results.
>>
>>
>> I don’t know, but other people may have other concern that I don’t
>> necessarily anticipate..
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> So it does not seems like a given to me  (not that I’m against it) and
>>> would require a discussion on the mailing-list first IMO.
>>>
>>
>> We might as well continue having it now since it's been started. I'll
>> re-raise the issue in a month or so when the bot is
>> actually stable enough to consider sending emails.
>>
>>
>> I think it deserve a separate thread to deal with this, so that the
>> thread title help making sure no-one miss the discussion.
>>
>> —
>> Mehdi
>>
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