Thanks to the wonderful work of Ronald Bradford, a buildbot is now up and running for Drizzle and is accepting BuildSlaves. Not familiar with Buildbot? It’s a tool which allows continuous and automated building and testing of a project with a public web-based interface showing which platforms are building and testing cleanly, and which developer has messed up a build or test 😉

Adding one of your machines as a BuildSlave (a machine which performs the build and test) is quite easy, and Ronald has set up a few wiki pages describing the process:

• Instructions for setting up a BuildSlave for Drizzle
• More info on Ronald’s blog

We very much encourage folks who have access to larger or unusual platforms to become BuildSlaves so that the development team can verify builds and tests for a larger variety of platforms.

Thanks very much to Ronald for all the great work on this up to now and his company 42SQL for hosting the buildmaster!