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[Michael Nelson <michael.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Michael Nelson <
michael.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Michael Hudson <
> michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Julian Edwards wrote:
>> > There is one nightmare part to this - the implementation of
>> > IBuilder.findBuildCandidate().  This is currently a very ugly query that
>> > decides which job to dispatch next, based on a few criteria about the
>> jobs.  I
>> > expect it to get to troll-like ugliness by the time we finish and I'm
>> not sure
>> > how it will work yet, it depends on how Michael re-factors IBuilder and
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>> > up an interface that other builders must implement.
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>> Wow, that's a beauty alright.
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> Hmm... as far as I understand it, we aren't going to have generalised
> builders that can do both binary-package building and branch->source package
> building initially right? Rather, we'll have different types of builders. So
> although we'll want to keep the scoring consistent for both so that when we
> *do* have such infrastructure they'll be queued fairly, currently each
> builder type will be able to implement its own findBuildCandidate() and only
> be looking for builds of the required type... in which case, the short-term
> solution for findBuildCandidate() should be pretty straight forward?
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Erm - my mistake. We won't yet have generalised builders that can accept
jobs for different archs, but any builder should be able to do branch jobs
(ie. non soyuz-build jobs).




> -Michael.
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