Build farm(er)

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Hello,


I was talking yesterday with Walter and Brad about enacting a build farm 
and the build master who would tend to it.

The basic idea is to amass a number of remote machines (real and/or 
virtual) running various OSs and use them for building and testing 
recent commits of dmd and phobos. The website will have a "cutting-edge" 
downloadable package that contains the most recent successful build. At 
the end of the day I want us to get to the point where I type:

% make world

and everything is built from source all the way to uploading the 
installers for all OSs to the website and updating html files accordingly.

Walter and I agreed that wine should be adequate for building and 
testing on Windows, which is helpful because we can use the Unix command 
line tools throughout.

The build master will act as a coordinator of check ins, reviews, 
builds, test harnesses, and probably more. Walter is currently handling 
these roles, and he would be relieved to pass them on to someone reliable.

Any ideas, proposals, contributions and candidates are welcome!


Andrei