This allows team members to check on the build status on a wide variety of operating systems and architectures without the drudgery of logging into each machine after each CVS commit.
The build farm pulls the source code from the unpacked CVS repository and does a clean configure and build whenever a change is detected in the tree. The results shown give information on the status of the configure and build process, plus any error logs.
In future we plan on expanding the build farm to do basic runtime testing as well.
The author of the build farm is Andrew Tridgell and it was heavily modified by Todd Lyons. The source for the build farm is available in the build_farm cvs tree on the samba.org CVS server.
The build farm is now maintained by Todd Lyons.
If you have a machine that you wish to participate in our build farm then please read these instructions.