MacPorts Meeting 2018: Buildbot

Outstanding issues:

​https://trac.macports.org/query?status=!closed&keywords=~buildbot

• Buildbot 1.0
  • Can we switch to the new version?
  • Would offer GitHub authentication

• Deploying www/guide/portindex jobs
  • Has to be deployed by Ryan

• Pull requests
  • Can we test them on our own infrastructure?
  • Requires spinning up clean VMs

• Fixing email notifications
  • No access to logs, Ryan needs to look into it
  • Do not attempt to build ports on platforms they are known to fail on
  • Use 'platforms' option from Portfiles

Most important and might want to start on this meeting:

• Building variants
  • Ticket: ​https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52742
  • Make mpbb support building with variants
  • Which set of variants should be build by the buildbot?
    • +quartz
    • +universal

• History of builds for each port
  • How to find build of a specific port
  • Need to write some kind of index
  • History of builds

• Reorganization
  • Use one build job per port
  • Add another level of hierarchy
  • Have a single portwatcher jobs that triggers mirroring and distributes jobs to OS-specific builds afterwards

• Port dependencies build order
  • Ticket: ​https://trac.macports.org/ticket/52766
  • Dependencies need to be built first
  • Sort list of ports to topological order