[OpenAFS] Re: Shared admin access for buildbot master

Jason Edgecombe jason@rampaginggeek.com
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:54:46 -0400


On 09/10/2013 01:01 PM, Andrew Deason wrote:
>> On 9/9/2013 9:18 PM, Jason Edgecombe wrote:
>>> I would like to discuss the topic of sharing admin access and duties
>>> with others. What would the group like to see happen?
>>>
>>> Currently, I am the admin for the buildbot master (and the
>>> debian-i386 slave on the same machine), and I'm the admin of the
>>> rhel5 buildslave.
>>>
>>> We've had fewer people offer to administer build slaves than host
>>> them.
> I think at least part of this conversation makes more sense on -devel
> than -info, so I'm responding here. This is coming from threads on
> openafs-info and release-team.
>
> Anyway, my opinion or my "vote" or whatever, would be to allow buildbot
> administrative access to a wider group of people. I was thinking
> something similar in scope to the group of people that are involved with
> building binaries for releases (and the release manager(s)). Or maybe
> just the vaguely-defined regular contributors; something like myself,
> Derrick, Ben, etc, etc. I didn't have any specific cutoff point in mind,
> but you know, the people who notice when buildbot breaks or is slow. It
> would be nice if it were at least physically possible for them to do
> something about it when they notice :)
>
> I'm not clear on if such people event want that access, or are able to
> contribute to this part of the infrastructure at all. But that's just
> what I had in mind.
>
The build master needs to be migrated to a different host. After that, 
we can open up access to others. If your interested, then please contact me.

Thanks,
Jason