Hi all,

So, finally I have done enough setup to have GIMP, GEGL and babl tarballs nightly built and published. They can be downloaded from here:

ftp://gimptest.flamingtext.com/pub/nightly-tarballs/

A big thanks to Cameron Gregory at FlamingText.com who donated the gimptest.flamingtext.com server.

The buildbots are found at http://gimptest.flamingtext.com:PORT/ where PORT is 8010, 8011 and 8012 for babl, GEGL and GIMP respectively.

I have created a new project with various useful scripts and a Python module to help setup and maintain the GIMP BuildBots, found at http://github.com/Enselic/gimp-buildbot-utils.

There are BuildBot IRC bots in #gegl and #gimp. Mails will be sent out to individual developers in two groups: "all mails" and "failed builds". GIMP's distcheck fails way too often for us to send build status mails to gimp-developer. Most people on that list don't care if GIMP's make distcheck fails.

Hopefully the demand for nightly builds will not be too big for gimptest.flamingtext.com. If the bandwidth usage becomes too big due to tarball downloads, we have to find another place to host those.

Still some things to do:

* Make the blamelist feature work. I didn't get a GitPoller to work properly so I has postponed this for now. The best way would probably be to listen to the GNOME commit mailing list and let the buildbot get notified about new changes that way.

* Install a complete set of build dependencies for GEGL and GIMP on the buildbot so the whole code base is built, I plan to finish this today...

* Make the UI tests be run during make distcheck

Eventually it would be nice to do nightly binary builds too, in particular for Windows where it is very inconvenient to do GIMP builds. Jernej?

/ Martin