GSoC 2019 [Buildbot ideas]

[Rajdeep Bharati]

Thanks, I'll attempt this.

Rajdeep

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 8:26 PM Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> Dear Rajdeep,
>
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 14:02, Rajdeep Bharati wrote:
> >
> > I had a doubt regarding the creation of buildbot 2.x Portfile: Would
> writing a Portfile be sufficient or would there need to be other changes to
> the ports tree as well?
>
> We would presumably move the contents of the existing buildbot /
> buildbot-slave ports under buildbot-0.8 / buildbot-slave-0.8 and put
> the new one under buildbot & buildbot-worker (the buildbot-slave could
> potentially stay without being renamed since the name doesn't "clash",
> or be declared obsolete and replaced_by buildbot-slave-0.8, just to be
> consistent with buildbot-0.8 naming; not sure what is better).
>
> We would want to keep those two old ports for a while, at least until
> we actually move our infrastructure to the new version, but
> potentially also for the sake of other users who might be running the
> old buildbot master that requires the old buildbot slaves (me
> included; but I should do the transition in my other project as well,
> I was just too lazy).
>
> But for the start feel free to ignore all those strange constraints.
> The only thing we need to start with is a working port for the latest
> version, and doing the last step should be trivial for any regular
> contributor to ports with zero knowledge about buildbot.
>
> It could be that a few additional ports would be needed for
> dependencies of buildbot (like some of the javascript stuff). I'm not
> sure if those should be installed via npm directly (as part of
> additional instructions) or if there's a feasible way to package them
> nicely and depend on them, so that everything would simply work out of
> the box after installing the port. Maybe step one could be to package
> just buildbot (master and worker). Optional step 2 to package some
> dependencies. We should check what other distributions are doing. Step
> 3 to take care of transition of the old stuff (could be done by others
> as well).
>
> Mojca
>
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