Re: Status of build bots?

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

* Carlos O'Donell:

> We really need functioning build bots for all major targets:
>
> * x86_64 / i686
> * aarch64 / arm
> * s390x / s390
> * ppc32 / ppc64 / ppc64le
>
> It would be great if we got s390x backup and running.

You should qualify whether this is a community perspective or a Red Hat
perspective.

I have to admit that I have not been able to make any sense whatsoever
of the buildbot output.  Is this really something from which regular
glibc contributors derive value?  If not, why are we doing it?  Joseph's
build-only tester is much more useful to me, even though it provides so
little diagnostic output.

I also find the choice of architectures peculiar.  With the potential
exception of arm (which variant?), these are exactly those architectures
which are (comparatively) easy to get access to.  The regular
contributors either have them in-house, or can access Debian
porterboxes, the GCC compile farm, IBM's community resources (never used
those, admittedly), or the public Fedora machines.

Thanks,
Florian