svn commit: r938492 - /subversion/site/publish/contributing.html

[cm...@apache.org]

Author: cmpilato
Date: Tue Apr 27 15:01:06 2010
New Revision: 938492

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=938492&view=rev
Log:
* site/publish/contributing.html
  Add an (unfinished) item about another way to contribute: build farm
  node donation.

Modified:
    subversion/site/publish/contributing.html

Modified: subversion/site/publish/contributing.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/publish/contributing.html?rev=938492&r1=938491&r2=938492&view=diff
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--- subversion/site/publish/contributing.html (original)
+++ subversion/site/publish/contributing.html Tue Apr 27 15:01:06 2010
@@ -127,6 +127,25 @@
        specific to a particular dataset or only happens under some
        other specific circumstances.</p>
 </li>
+
+<li><p style="font-weight: bold;">Add a node to our build farm</p>
+
+    <p>Subversion has a large regression test suite that takes a
+       non-trivial amount of time to run.  Even though developers are
+       encouraged to run these tests before committing changes,
+       sometimes things fall through the cracks &mdash; "obvious"
+       changes turn out not to be, platform-specific bugs crop up,
+       etc.  To help us catch these sorts of things, we employ a
+       <a href="http://crest.ics.uci.edu/buildbot/">buildbot farm</a>
+       of machines continuously testing our codebase as it changes.
+       So even if you can't personally take the time to actively test
+       Subversion, if you have a computer with cycles to spare, please
+       consider adding it as a node in our buildbot farm.  We can
+       always benefit from having our test suite executed continuously
+       on additional operating systems and machine architectures.</p>
+    <p class="todo">Point to buildbot node configuration details here.</p>
+</li>
+
 </ul>
 
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