Debian Gump

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Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 14:57 +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> 
>>>If there is anybody that wants to create a Gump setup
>>>on a Debian GNU/Linux (x86) using kaffe or gcj that would be a huge help
>>>since testing and comparing results on such a setup is a lot easier for
>>>most (upstream) hackers (since a lot do actually run Debian).
>>
>>That would be great. Mark, do you know what is the load of such a
>>configuration? Network, CPU, Mem etc so we can ask the Debian project to
>>host such a configuration. And maybe on several different architectures.
>>
>>I'm willing to help in this direction.
> 
> 
> Thanks. Unfortunately I still haven't setup Gump myself.

I've had a gump running for a while myself. It was fun ;) I plan to set 
one up this weekend again, with latest gump code, and document things 
for free runtimes. That's one of the things I promised to do at ApacheCon ;)

> We also have to come up with a free workspace for gump. The default has
> some non-free binary dependencies. One interesting idea would be to have
> gump depend on the actual unstable/experimental Debian packages
> themselves (but building them from source of course). Gump normally uses
> current CVS sources. But for Debian it might be more important to get a
> current state of Debian testing/unstable/experimental overview using the
> Gump. Since that is what your users are going the got in the end.

I think a Debian-specific integration testing box would be quite cool, 
from a QA perspective, to track regressions in general, be they Java 
releated or not, in the long run. I think Gump could be pretty useful 
for all that (and the ASF also has various non-java projects that could 
use Gumping as well) so that'S an area where everyone could profit. ;)

But first things first ;)

cheers,
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