feature request: a method to try a Port build against the buildbot farm BEFORE it is committed to the main macports repository

[Rainer Müller]

On 2018-07-08 18:02, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> 
> On 2018-07-08, at 7:59 AM, Rainer Müller wrote:
> 
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>> There was a lengthy thread on this in April:
>> https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2018-April/038023.html
>>
>> Rainer
> 
> I had thought that one was mostly about using GitHub (which does CI on only a couple of systems). I'll go back and look it over, thanks.

The plan would be to have the buildbot as yet another CI system for pull
requests.

> I didn't know about the BuiltBot "Try Scheduler" -- it looks like that is just what I was wondering about.

Here is the mail where I described in detail what we would need to spin
up VMs on the buildbot:

https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2018-April/038155.html

Rainer