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[new feature] build farm / metric reports #19

Ed ·
Hi,

More ideas/feature requests

(1)
Ability to create slaves, not just remote quickbuild installs (which is a lot of setup), but slaves for building. Basically for distributed builds.

Say we run out of capacity on a certain server, we want to be able to seamlessly add capacity. We could discover servers thru multicast or some standard discovery protocol, which would then advertise it's capabilities, e.g. what 3rd party APIs are available (if needed), etc.

QuickBuild could then intelligently distribute a waiting build to a free/idle slave.

The alternative is to maintain multiple quickbuild installs, which can become cumbersome. A single management console would be useful.

(2)
Next, add some metric reporting to say how often builds run, how often they are successful, how busy certain build queues are, etc. Either using something like JRobin or any tool to store and display the data.

Thanks,
Ed
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kingmak ·
I think both ideas would be great. But I know the number two option would make management very happy. They would love an easy approach to generating metrics against the builds, how often they fail and so forth. Great Idea Ed!
robinshen ADMIN ·
Will try to add such statistics and enhance the distributed build ability in future releases.

Thanks for the good suggestion!