[LLVMdev] LLVM IRC channel flooded?

David Blaikie
Tue, 19 May 2015 17:39:16 -0000

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:15 AM, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org>
wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I know it's a reasonably valuable thing to have the buildbot IRC bot
> publishing results, but the channel is kind of flooded with the
> messages, and the more bots we put up, the worse it will be.
>
> I think we still need the NOC warnings,


NOC?


> but not over IRC. The Buildbot
> NOC page is horrible and useless, since it doesn't know the difference
> between "it's red and I know it" from "it's
broken".
>

What distinction are you drawing there? The difference between freshly red
and previously red?


> For that reason, I have built my own NOC page:
>
> http://people.linaro.org/~renato.golin/llvm/arm-bots/


What does this do differently from the main buildbot page? (other than only
show arm bots?) Is it something we could do to the buildbot page (remove
always-red builders, recategorize flaky/problematic builders so at least
they're off in the "experimental" section, etc)?


> But that machine is too slow to cope with all bots. We may need a
> project to build such a system on a larger scale.
>
> However, for now, I think not printing the green results in IRC would
> go a long way of cleaning the channel up.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> cheers,
> --renato
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