[maemo-developers] Autobuilder: building svn tags from garage

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 18:38:53 Ed Bartosh wrote:
> I thought you have some machinery for watching your builds, no?

No, I have a script for submitting the builds in groups (ones with no 
dependencies between them), guessing how long those builds will take 
(assuming nothing in the queue ahead of them), adding a fudge factor of half 
an hour or so (to allow for unexpected delays and to allow the built packages 
to make their way into the repository), and waiting that long before 
submiting the next batch.  This sort-of works.   Mostly.  Except when it 
doesn't.  In particular, as it gets no feedback from the builder, it breaks 
if anything takes longer than it expects or there are other people building 
things at the same time.  And the dependency list is created manually.

Graham