On 2017-03-08 6:40 AM, James Graham wrote: > On 08/03/17 11:11, Frederik Braun wrote: >> On 08.03.2017 01:17, Ralph Giles wrote: >>> I second Jeff's point about building with icecream[1]. If you work in >>> an office with a build farm, or near a fast desktop machine you can >>> pass jobs to, this makes laptop builds much more tolerable. >>> >> >> What do you mean by build farm? >> Do some offices have dedicated build machines? >> Or is this "just" a lot of desktop machines wired up to work together? > > Several offices are using icecream with whatever desktop machines happen > to be available to improve build times. The London office was told last > year that there's a plan to buy dedicated build machines to add to the > cluster, but I am unaware if there is any progress or whether the idea > was dropped.
What we did in the Toronto office was walked to people who ran Linux on their desktop machines and installed the icecream server on their computer. I suggest you do the same in London. There is no need to wait for dedicated build machines. ;-) _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
