[Bioperl-l] BioPerl BuildBot

[Fields, Christopher J]

On May 9, 2012, at 12:44 PM, Peter Cock wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've retitled this and sent it to the BioPerl list, continuing from
> this thread on
> the BioRuby list:
> 
> http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/bioruby/2012-May/002247.html
> 
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public14 at thebird.nl> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 05:29:49PM +0000, Fields, Christopher J wrote:
>>> *sigh*
>>> 
>>> Anyone know of a way I can clone myself a few times, so one of my clones can get bioperl set up on buildbot? :P
>> 
>> Peter knows someone in Scotland who can help! Now I got to see a man
>> about a sheep...
>> 
>> Pj.
> 
> You mean Dolly The Sheep? ;)
> 
> Tiago or I can assist on the BuilBot server side for BioPerl - in fact Tiago
> had already made a start (CC'd).
> 
> We'll need help from a BioPerl developer with a spare machine or two
> to use as a buildslave (and I can probably borrow some of my employer's
> which are already nightly tests) to help with how we setup the BuildSlaves
> - essentially how to get BioPerl and relevant dependencies installed,
> and then what needs to be done from a fresh git checkout to build
> and run the tests. Tiago has got this currently:
> 
> perl Build.PL --accepts
> ./Build test
> 
> Once that is working on a single buildslave we can talk about different
> targets which is where BuildBot is really helpful (e.g. versions of Perl,
> different OS, etc)
> 
> Peter

Thanks Peter.  Yes, if anyone has spare cycles it would be very nice to get this up and running, my hands are a bit full the next few months.  The key thing we'll need to track are:

1) Adding the various bioperl distributions
2) How to add a new bioperl-related distribution

chris