[yocto-ab] external board farm

[Kridner, Jason]

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From: yocto-ab-bounces at yoctoproject.org [yocto-ab-bounces at yoctoproject.org] on behalf of Cherry, John [John_Cherry at mentor.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 2:49 PM
To: Anderson, Paul; Osier-mixon, Jeffrey; Richard Purdie
Cc: yocto-ab at yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto-ab] external board farm

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> From: yocto-ab-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-ab-
> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Anderson, Paul
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:11 PM
> To: Osier-mixon, Jeffrey; Richard Purdie
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> Subject: Re: [yocto-ab] external board farm
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> > I have a memory that we discussed a distributed build farm. That
> might be cheaper, and if someone like Mentor were to develop software
> to run it and open-source it, perhaps that could become part of the
> Yocto project. On the other hand, it means duplication of effort in the
> labs themselves.
>
> Wind River also has an extensive build farm, automated test, and lab
> management capability that could be used as well. Let's discuss the
> operational needs for build, test as well as what board lab
> infrastructure we might want available to the project and its users
> over time.

Yes, we all have our internal build/test farms with lab management capabilities.  And we all understand what a pain it is to keep a board farm current, running, and useful.  I definitely agree that we need a shared and/or distributed mechanism to do this, if for nothing else to reduce the redundancy of efforts.

A couple quick questions for the device/silicon vendors...

- Would you participate (contribute to) in a shared/distributed board farm, or will there be IP issues in making this truly affective?

[Jason] Yes, we would participate with at least some of our platforms and some logistical setup support.

- Would you prefer a single shared farm, or a distributed set of farms?

[Jason] There is some value to distribution and a bit of access fairness, but I'm OK with that being a roadmap item at launch.

- Would you take the responsibility to keep the boards in the board farm at current revisions and take responsibility for maintenance
  of these boards?

[Jason] Yes, for a small number of platforms.

>
> > As Richard says, I'm glad to see someone taking the lead. John, is
> there anything specific you need before moving forward?
>
> John -- perhaps we can catch up on this and other things sometime soon?

Be glad to catch up on this and other things soon.  At least for the board farm options, I think we need to get some kind of AB agreement before we can get much further on the logistics for making it happen.

Hey, we missed you at LinuxCon Paul.  Hope all is well.

John

>
> Regards,
>
> -pja
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