These are notes for working on or using the work Luis has checked into microtinder in GNOME CVS. It isn't much- basically a small, crappy shell script and a couple patches to jhbuild. But it works, which is more than anything we have right now 
and my hope is that others will build on it going forward. So here are my notes on getting it set up. There is also a /ToDo and a /RequirementsDoc for those who'd like to replace my crappy hacked setup 
Discussion of patches, bugs, changes, whatever, should be on packaging list.
To run the microtinder
do: (note that ~/bin/ must be in your path)
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome checkout microtinder [this cvs includes a copy of jhbuild]
- cd microtinder
- "./tinder-setup.sh"
- "./tinder.sh test" This will fail, because the odds of your box having all the right build dependencies are low. Fix them as you see them, and run "tinder.sh test" again until you have a successful build.
Once you have a successful build, run "tinder.sh&" and watch the web_output/ONGOING/ dir.
If you would like to be on http://tieguy.org/tinder/ email luis the web location of your output.
Requirements
- full build setups- gcc, cpp, etc.
- lots of disk space. The current script doesn't ever clean up logs.
Things that would be good to have installed/set up, but aren't mandatory
ccache, to really cut down on compile time
- cvsup, for a local cvs mirror to speed up checkout time (since we do a total complete checkout every time we build, even on a fast connection 'cvs co' takes up a big, big chunk of build time.) Note that we do a complete, clean checkout every time because our goal is to test what builds with a clean CVS checkout, not what may or may not build in a semi-clean checkout. cvsup allows local caching while still testing a totally clean build.
jhbuild tinderbox command already has options for -c (clean) and -a (run autogen). This patch tries to utilize it.
DanWinship: there are often bugs in packages where "make clean" cleans too much or too little. (eg gnomebug:158213, fdo bug 1845). Having microtinder catch these would be useful.
- a public web space so that others can browse your logs.