Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo

[Michał Górny]

On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 13:13:36 +0000
Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:

> On 12/03/2016 10:41 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 10:35:32 +0100
> > Patrice Clement <monsieurp@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >> Friday 02 Dec 2016 14:10:27, Michał Górny wrote :
> >>> Hi, everyone.
> >>>
> >>> I've heard multiple times about various tinderbox projects being
> >>> started by individuals in Gentoo. In fact, so many different projects
> >>> that I've forgotten who was working on most of them.
> >>>
> >>> I know that Toralf is doing tinderboxing for most of the stuff.
> >>> What other projects do we have there? What is their status?
> >>>
> >>> Is there anything we could try to integrate with pull requests to get
> >>> a better testing?
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Michał Górny
> >>> <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
> >>
> >> Continuous integration is all the rage these days and tinderboxing is the
> >> obvious way to go concerning Gentoo. AFAIK, Toralf is the only contributor
> >> doing tinderboxing out of his own will. In reality, we should have a team of
> >> devs looking after our own tinderboxes instead of relying on the community.
> >>
> >> I'm wondering if we could start a donation campain for this project and ask
> >> people if they've got spare machines laying around. I know a lot of folks are
> >> reading this mailing list so maybe asking on gentoo-dev first for a start would
> >> be appropriate.
> >
> > Hardware is not the problem. Lack of software is.
> >
>
> Have you considered using openQA[1] like openSUSE[2] and Fedora[3] do
> instead of reinventing the wheel?
>
> [1] http://open.qa/
> [2] https://openqa.opensuse.org/
> [3] https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/

Do you by any chance happen to know how it maps to our needs?
At a first glance it seems quite tangential.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>