[OpenAFS-devel] Re: Buildbot for gerrit

[Derrick Brashear]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Andrew Deason <adeason@sinenomine.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:58:22 +0100
> Simon Wilkinson <sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>> The key factor here is performance - the whole system needs to be able
>> to build and test faster than patches appear in gerrit. Additional
>> hardware will obviously help with this.
>
> This would be my concern. Not so much for if we can build it _somewhere_
> (I'm sure we can find enough spare x86 boxen), but build-time on certain
> platforms will be more scarce. I don't know if we'd be able to build
> every submitted change on, say, IRIX, but there are certainly changes I
> make that I'd want verified on as many platforms as possible.

Someone I won't out, he can out himself if he wishes, may have the
answer for IRIX.