On Sat, Jun 05, 2010, Joel Crisp wrote:
This is an interesting offer, but it seems to be to almost be the wrong way around. AMD, Canonical among others are sponsoring Linaro
(AMD?)
wouldn't it makemore sense for them to throw a few thousand $ at a build farm somewhere and provide a work queue for that so that Linaro contributors could do farm based build and test?
It's not good enough unfortunately; that's the way I thought we should approach the problem as well in the past, but it turns out that large companies don't like to rely on external resources/services. They are big enough that they feel their process should be self-hosted. I also thought they could build the same build farm as we would, but then you start meeting with the sensibilities/policitical issues around using hardware from a competitor to run your own build farm.