[Bioperl-l] BioPerl BuildBot

[Peter Cock]

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