[M3devel] Looking for CM3 Tinderbox regression test participants, was: Re: M3 concerns

[Olaf Wagner]

It's now more than two weeks since I asked for participants, and
none but the elego tests have shown up in the tinderbox since then.
So I think it may be time for a reminder :-)

I don't want to hurry anyone, but if anything does not work as
expected or described or someone needs help getting tinderbox
reports transfered, don't hesitate to contact me. I'd really love to
see more platforms than FreeBSD and Linux and the occasional DARWIN
tested on a regular basis.

Olaf

PS: No need to apologize for anyone who maybe hasn't found the time yet
     to setup the test runs. I really understand that there are many more
     important matters.

Quoting Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com>:

> Quoting Olaf Wagner <wagner at elegosoft.com>:
>> o I think we have agreed on the fact that automatic regression testing
>>   would help and should be introduced. Tests should be run daily/nightly
>>   on as many platforms as possible, and results should be collected
>>   and made available via WWW (elego offers to host these services, as
>>   it does for CVS repositories and CM3 web access).
>
> As you've surely all seen in the Status section of
>
>   http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/
>
> the Elego Tinderbox regression test framework for CM3 has now been
> working for about two weeks. Though it's still not as complete and
> stable as I'd like it to be, I think it is now the right time for others
> to join the test framework and run the prepared tests in regular
> intervals on their favourite platforms. The results can now be transfered
> to Elego via your ssh account you also use for repository commits.
>
> Currently the tests are running on a Debian Linux system and a FreeBSD 6
> system at Elego, and now and then I'm starting a run on my MacOS X
> laptop. The latter is not ideal for this purpose though.
>
> I'm now looking for other who would be willing to setup nightly tests
> on their own servers. The following systems are of interest
>
>  o PPC_DARWIN on MacOS X 10.4 or 10.5
>  o I386_DARWIN
>  o SOLgnu on any Solaris version
>  o SOLsun "
>  o LINUXLIBC6 on RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse Linux (have I forgotten
>    some variants?)
>  o NT386* on Windows 2000/XP/Vista
>  o NetBSD2_i386
>  o FreeBSD4 on older FreeBSD systems (4.x, 5.x) and on current (7.0)
>  o PPC_LINUX (though this seems to be broken for some time)
>  o ALPHA_OSF -- is anybody still using Alphas?
>
> I think the other targets are more or less unused, but would of course not
> object to test results for them.
>
> There's a short description by Kaspar Schleiser of how to participate in
> cm3/scripts/regression/README. Basically you need to checkout the
> scripts, install 5.4.0 manually once, and setup a cron job.
>
> We're mostly interested in the results of `tinderbox-build.sh cm3.build',
> which is the complete bootstrap and release build based on 5.4.0,
> as I think the lastok build need not run on all platforms. It's mainly
> there to detect incompatible changes.
>
> The release build includes the package and m3tests tests.
>
> If you want to participate, I'd suggest to setup everything and run
> it once without transferring your results, then enable the transfer
> in cm3.build:
>
> tinderbox_mailer() {
>         true    # needed if function is emtpy without this...
> # to report to the elego tinderbox host, check README and uncomment this:
> #       cat "$1" | ssh tinderbox.elego.de "sudo -u tinderbox
> /usr/local/tinderbox/tinderbox-cgi/processmail_builds.cgi"
> }
>
> That's all. Please let me know in advance if you setup the tests,
>
> Olaf
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