auto-tester hardware donations

[Jerry via Digitalmars-d]

Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> writes:

> On 5/25/14, 7:54 AM, monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Saturday, 24 May 2014 at 17:58:08 UTC, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> As discussed a little at the conference, the auto-tester is almost always hardware bound.  In
>>> other words, it's building flat out 24/7.  More hardware == faster updates to build status.  If
>>> anyone wants to provide hardware to help there's a number of ways to do so.  Here's my order of
>>> preference:
>>>
>>> 1) you have a machine you host somewhere and can provide me remote access to.
>>>     - this could be a bare metal host or a vm
>>>
>>> At this point, I'd MUCH rather have hardware that doesn't live in my house.  I've got too many
>>> already.  But I also don't want to turn down good equipment.  So, please reach out to me privately
>>> if you'd like to help out: braddr at puremagic.com
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brad
>>
>> Would there be any way to be able to set-up and configure the machines on our end, and to "register"
>> them into the auto-testers once they are ready to go?

I'd be willing to run some autotesting in my house.  Granting remote
access, not so much :-)

How hard would it be to turn the autotester client into such a pull system?

Jerry