[SAC] [OSGeo] #1214: Resurrect buildbot

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#1214: Resurrect buildbot
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 Reporter:  strk           |       Owner:  sac@…              
     Type:  task           |      Status:  new                
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:                     
Component:  Systems Admin  |    Keywords:                     
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Comment(by robe):

 Just my 2c.  Most of the effort of managing a buildbot is managing the
 server and setting up the scripts for each job and revising the scripts
 when things change.  In defense of Jenkins, don't confuse my ineptness and
 uninterest in making jenkins better as a failure in Jenkins. It took me 30
 minutes to figure out how to do what I wanted with it and I stopped there.

 When I set up Jenkins it was to replace Hudson and other things I wanted
 it to do -- most importantly provide automated builds for windows users,
 least amount of reading to get going, build tarballs and doco for website.
 It does all that and has nice plugins to abstract away git/svn whatever
 you need to connect to and polls them.

 I chose Debian remember because you and Mark said that is what you would
 work with.  I was pretty disappointed when it was only dustymugs  (who
 uses Slackware might I add and who never promised to help me) that stepped
 up to the plate to help me.

 So my plea is before you go thru this effort outline what buildbot
 provides that travis and others do not and how much effort it really takes
 to keep it going.

 As Mat said a lot of people like travis because the infrastructure is free
 and you just have to worry about the scripts. For me it doesn't work
 completely cause it can't do windows and there are probably things against
 using it for packaging. I still think we should setup a travis job for
 PostGIS cause it ain't that much work, people now have a lot of experience
 (e.g pgrouting, mat, liblas) and  it seems and would provide ubuntu
 testing.

 There isn't anything wrong with having many kinds of buildbots when your
 objective is more testing.  Time to learn I doubt is that much for any. It
 just takes at least one person willing to put in the muscle to keep it
 going.

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