On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Glenn Harvey Liwanag <[email protected]> wrote: > I can try building the thing on my Mac OS X if that's what you're looking > for. It's my only computer right now and I use it for school so I have to > know first the average build time and the instructions to get the whole > thing done without academics interfering with the work. >
A "buildbot" is a server that does automated builds for us in a secure environment. So it is more complicated than a build environment set up on an developer's machine. That said, you are welcome to set up a build environment on your own machine if you are interested in helping with bug fixes or things like that. Regards, -Rob > > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Regarding Jürgen's comments on a recent thread -- >> >> http://markmail.org/message/v5zli2np67qv5ryz >> >> Since CentOS 5 is our reference distribution for delivered Linux binaries >> (I did not know this!) -- and I am assuming this distro might remain as the >> reference going forward, does it make sense to try to move forward to set >> this up as a buildbot. I know wokr had already started on this. Can someone >> give us an update? >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-6217 >> >> I don't know CentOS, but having about 18 years in various *nixes HP/UX, >> Solaris, RedHat, SuSE), I could probably help assuming I could work in >> command line only to deal with this. >> >> On the MacOSX front, the latest update indicates we don't have hardware :( >> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4902 >> >> Any suggestions? Volunteers with equipment to dedicate to this? >> >> >> >> -- >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> MzK >> >> “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, >> Nothing is going to get better. It's not.” >> -- Dr. Seuss, The Lorax >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
