[OpenAFS-devel] slave suggestions for buildslaves?

[Jason Edgecombe]

On 06/24/2013 09:06 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
> On 06/24/2013 02:42 PM, Michael Meffie wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:00:34 +0100
>> Simon Wilkinson <simonxwilkinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 24 Jun 2013, at 16:08, Michael Meffie wrote:
>>>> In addition to more cycles per seconds in the pool of build slaves, we
>>>> could make the buildbot master configuration a bit smarter about about
>>>> scheduling builds from gerrit.
>>> The biggest speed improvement we could make with buildbot would be 
>>> finding
>>> some way of cancelling any outstanding builds for patchsets 1..n when
>>> patchset n+1 is submitted for a change. The usual way that we end up 
>>> with day
>>> long backlogs is because a large tree of changes is being repeatedly 
>>> rebased.
>>>
>> I'd think this could be done with a change to the buildbot contributed
>> GerritScheduler (or maybe even just a "change filter" to the scheduler).
>>
>> Unfortunately, I've not been able to actually locate the code for the
>> GerritScheduler, which I believe is currently being used.  The 
>> information on
>> wiki.openafs.org seems to be out of date:
>>
>>     http://wiki.openafs.org/buildbotmasternotes/
>>
>> Jason, Is this code available somewhere?
> The currently-deployed gerrit scheduler code has vanished from the 
> author's github repo. I could make it available, but there isn't much 
> value in doing so. Currently, there are three implementations of the 
> gerrit scheduler:
>
> g1: the currently deployed scheduler, written by Jay Soffian. It was 
> written before gerrit had upstream support.
> g2: the gerrit scheduler from newer buildbot  versions. This one does 
> one gerrit comment per builder...not desirable
> g3: a custom version from YFS.
>
> I would like to merge g2 and g3, but I'm waiting for a working config 
> file so that I can move forward. This situation is why I haven't 
> upgraded the buildbot master software.
>
> What ever is done, should be done after getting a workable gerrit 
> scheduler and  upgrading.
>
To clarify, I'm waiting on a co-worker to reconstruct his old buildbot 
config so that I can compare g2 & g3.