[OpenAFS-devel] slave suggestions for buildslaves?

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 21:15 -0400, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Jeff Hutzelman is offering a few x86_64 boxes as build slaves and 
> possibly a sparc box for solaris 10.  Currently, the longest 
> gerrit-triggered slave is solaris 10/11 at 26 minutes. Most of the 
> gerrit slaves take 15-24 minutes.
> 
> Are we missing any coverage for operating systems? Where would these 
> slaves do the most good? I'm asking the list, because you're the ones 
> who spend the most time waiting on the slaves. I know that the buildbot 
> slaves get backed up when a new release is being pushed out. How can we 
> best use these? Is there some other use that we should consider?

Bear in mind that these are "spare" machines that might get allocated on
relatively short notice.  But at least for now, they're just sitting
around.