#1214: Resurrect buildbot
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The buildbot service stopped working sometime in the past.
Would be nice to have it back online.
Lots of information about it here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/BuildBot_Configuration
and here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/How_to_create_new_OSGeo_BuildBot_instance
I'd be happy to help with this, but would need some pointers to start.
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Changes (by mloskot):
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Comment:
Use Travis CI, Luke! 
Having this excellent free for FOSS service available, I personally see
little point in investing maintenance effort and hardware resources for
self-hosted CI system.
My 5 cents.
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Comment(by robe):
Just my 2c. Most of the effort of managing a buildbot is managing the
server and setting up the scripts for each job and revising the scripts
when things change. In defense of Jenkins, don't confuse my ineptness and
uninterest in making jenkins better as a failure in Jenkins. It took me 30
minutes to figure out how to do what I wanted with it and I stopped there.
When I set up Jenkins it was to replace Hudson and other things I wanted
it to do -- most importantly provide automated builds for windows users,
least amount of reading to get going, build tarballs and doco for website.
It does all that and has nice plugins to abstract away git/svn whatever
you need to connect to and polls them.
I chose Debian remember because you and Mark said that is what you would
work with. I was pretty disappointed when it was only dustymugs (who
uses Slackware might I add and who never promised to help me) that stepped
up to the plate to help me.
So my plea is before you go thru this effort outline what buildbot
provides that travis and others do not and how much effort it really takes
to keep it going.
As Mat said a lot of people like travis because the infrastructure is free
and you just have to worry about the scripts. For me it doesn't work
completely cause it can't do windows and there are probably things against
using it for packaging. I still think we should setup a travis job for
PostGIS cause it ain't that much work, people now have a lot of experience
(e.g pgrouting, mat, liblas) and it seems and would provide ubuntu
testing.
There isn't anything wrong with having many kinds of buildbots when your
objective is more testing. Time to learn I doubt is that much for any. It
just takes at least one person willing to put in the muscle to keep it
going.
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Comment(by strk):
Mat: travis tests a single architecture, not scalable.
Robe: I agree the most work is setting up and revising scripts
About jenkins, it seems to me that finding slaves for it is not working
very well, and I suspect it's because setting up a jenkins slave takes
more effort than setting up a buildbot slave. For a start you need to be
happy with running java on your host...
I've no problem with having multiple bots, but as a developer I'd like to
look at a single page (I love buildbot's waterfall display) and at a
glance tell what's in need for love.
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Comment(by mloskot):
@strk Precisely, it is 64-bit Linux with GCC and clang compilers, so
32-bit builds are feasible too. I don't remember any other architectures
tested on Buildbot.
Regarding Windows, I can't help.
Anyway, I see your points.
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Comment(by robe):
strk,
Jenkins just requires an sh slave no java required. So my understanding is
for linux slaves its very east. Slaves don't need to be running Jenkins
at all. I just didn't read that far past that cause I didn't have a linux
box. Wanna be debbies slave :). (aside) because after yeh I can build
docs, do regressions, poll both svn and git with the plugins, build jdbc
jar file, I was full and got lazy reading about what sh scripts to give
slaves. Windows slaves are a bit more involved since they can't run sh --
so they have some sort of windows authenication extension java thing for
windows.
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Comment(by robe):
actually I misspoke I thought I read somewhere they don't need java but
maybe they do.
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Distributed+builds
#Distributedbuilds-Havemasterlaunchslaveagentviassh
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Comment(by robe):
actually in reading again I think jenkins can do with just ssh as long as
we don't have java code. I mistakenly read maven and thought it meant we
need java. But pure ssh is fine I think but I don't have a linux/unix box
to test with.
strk you want to be debbie's first slave? We can use you as a sh guinea
pig.
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Comment(by strk):
robe please let's use postgis tracker to discuss about postgis-specific CI
setups, this one is for OSGeo buildbot.
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Comment(by mloskot):
Regina, apology, I blindly clicked & replied, w/o checking URL of the
actual tracker I was using.
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Comment (by strk):
As I've been looking at trac for the past few weeks, I'll mention there's
a plugin to integrate buildbot with trac: https://trac-
hacks.org/wiki/BuildbotPlugin
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Comment (by strk):
Last commit being from 10 years ago 
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Comment (by strk):
For the record, the gdal IRC channel was found to still have a topic
pointing to the buildbot. I feel less lonely now
See gdal:#6536
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Comment (by robe):
I have on my list to experiment resurrecting this first for PostGIS needs.
Installing on the debian 9 vm I created for postgis testing I setup --
dubbed ianna and using freebsd vm workers (bessie, bessie32) . I chose
freebsd as my first venture since it's the most popular OS platform
currently not well tested on OSGeo software.
I'll update this as I progress. My hope is my small test can be used to
have a wider use.
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