Re: New Hydra build slaves

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in> skribis:

> On 03/04/2014 12:12 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

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>> I was actually thinking of general Hydra administration.
>> Occasionally machines may have troubles, like transient errors
>> (networking, disk space, random build issues, etc.) requiring manual
>> intervention, or occasional Hydra upgrades.
>
> OK, I can do these.

Excellent!  We can discuss the details off-line, possibly with Andreas
and Nikita, who have already suffe^W had the opportunity to help.  :-)

>> There’s also the problem that our current setup is fairly hackish. 
>> Having scripts to automate some of the tasks would be an
>> improvement.
> We can try setting up some kinda monitoring on the buildslaves which can
> then send emails when problems arise.  WDYT?

Yes, that would be great.

Also, I hope these can be the first machines to run the full GNU.  For
that, we’ll need service definitions for a few more things, notably
Hydra, for the front-end.

Thanks,
Ludo’.