Triggering builds on buildbots just by committing to user directory not possible?

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Sep 24, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Marko Käning <MK-MacPorts at techno.ms> wrote:

> On 24 Sep 2014, at 16:23 , Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> If so, I would be worried that it would publish binary packages of those pre-release ports.
> 
> Well, that indeed is the question. I don’t know what would happen with the binaries built there.

What is the purpose of the buildslaves? Are they meant for building binary archives, helping committers debug on the side? Or are they meant to be committers' debugging tools that conveniently produce binary archives?

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