Re: Bootstrapping Emacs-23.0.60-trunk newly broken (GNU/Linux, Cygwin)

[martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>]

 > While that is certainly true, it's also a waste of time for our
 > users to have to report bugs that could be avoided, and a waste of
 > our own time because we have to handle the reports.

I violently agree.

 > For the last few months I've been running a buildbot for the trunk
 > and the 22 branch (and before the merge, for the unicode branch), it
 > does a clean build every night (on GNU/Linux only) and usually
 > catches bootstrap failures.  See <URL:http://build.orebokech.com/>.

Awesome.  In the future I shall _always_ consult your page before
bootstrapping.  Please keep on maintaining it.  Please add the URL and a
corresponding explanation to the INSTALL files.

 > If there's interest we could add Cygwin and Windows build slaves

I'd be very much interested.

 > and possibly increase the build frequency

The current frequency is OK with me.

 > (the usual way of using
 > buildbot is with a notification script in the CVS commit hooks, but
 > I don't think this is allowed on Savannah).

What would that do precisely?