[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] Attn Buildbot Owners: Would you like your builder to test the release branch?

[Tom Stellard via llvm-dev]

On 2/12/21 1:49 AM, Omair Javaid wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> We at Linaro are maintaining LLVM Arm/AArch64 buildbots and want a host buildbot for testing of release branches.
> 

OK, that's great.

> Kindly share the steps to do this. Do we have to host separate builbots for tracking release branches or is it possible to track multiple branches by existing buildbots assuming traffic on release branches is less frequent?
> 

I've submitted a patch[1] to add the infrastructure for enabling builders
on the release branch.  Once this patch or something similar gets applied
then we can start enabling individual builders.  I'll follow up with you
once this patch lands.

-Tom


[1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D96046

> On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 at 21:49, Tom Stellard via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2/2/21 1:23 AM, Diana Picus wrote:
>      > Hi Tom,
>      >
>      > This sounds interesting! Would this also make it possible to automatically get the release binaries from the buildbots, as opposed to manually uploading to the FTP server?
>      >
> 
>     Yes, this is something I would like to do.  I think you could pretty easily run
>     the test-release.sh script on the bot.  The only issue is finding a way to
>     securely upload the binaries.
> 
>     -Tom
> 
>      > Cheers,
>      > Diana
>      >
>      > On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 at 01:46, Tom Stellard via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     Hi,
>      >
>      >     I would like to improve the testing coverage in the release branch, so if you
>      >     are a buildbot owner and would like to enable your builder for the release branch,
>      >     let me know, and I can help get it enabled.
>      >
>      >     Also, if you have any ideas for some more extensive testing that might be too
>      >     slow to run on the main branch, we may be able to enable it on the release
>      >     branch either running once per commit or once per tag.
>      >
>      >     Thanks,
>      >     Tom
>      >
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