[Haskell-cafe] Become a GHC build slave!

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi

> As a second point, the Yhc team do a variety of builds - some from
> clean, some from fullclean, some from delete the directory and a
> completely fresh darcs pull etc. We've found that can help catch
> things like interface changes, dependancies etc earlier. If you have
> (or can find) too many Windows/Linux machines etc that might be worth
> doing - and is pretty easy with buildbot.

As a side point, if you are considering becoming a GHC buildbot slave,
and are going to go to the (admitedly pretty small) trouble of
installing buildbot etc, you might want to consider becoming a Yhc
buildbot. Being a Yhc buildbot takes very little processor power and
time - builds take between 3 and 15 mins.

Our existing list of buildbots is http://www.indiegigs.co.uk:8010/ ,
and our details on being a buildbot are
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Yhc/Buildbot . If you do want to be a
Yhc buildbot please drop yhc at haskell.org a quick email (cc'ing me,
since we've been having some issues of posts bouncing from
non-members)

Thanks (and appologies for being so off-topic on GHC-users!)

Neil