<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi Eli,<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Am 25.12.2023 um 03:15 schrieb Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com>:</div><div><div>I have seen some mention on a couple of GNU mailing lists about the<br>possibility of a shell account on a solaris box for platform testing,<br>but I cannot find details about what this entails exactly. Apologies if<br>directly emailing you is the wrong way to do this...<br><br><br>I'm an upstream maintainer for https://github.com/mesonbuild, a popular<br>cross-platform build system. It's shipped in Solaris since 2020:<br>https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/announcing-oracle-solaris-114-sru19<br><br>and used by various software such as the X11 stack, various other<br>freedesktop stuff, Gnome, and a lot of Linux userland bits.<br><br>We (obviously) support Solaris. The issue is that we don't have any<br>automated testing, and a lot of what we mean by "support" is "Alan<br>Coopersmith sometimes submits bug fixes" combined with casual one-off<br>contributions.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Haha :-) Greetings to Alan!</div><br><blockquote type="cite">I would really love to polish off the corners, though,<br>and help avoid regressions in new releases -- something that is hard to<br>do without at least manual shell access for testing, and ideally some<br>form of buildbot testing.<br><br>Is this something that can be arranged?<br></blockquote><br></div><div>Sure, you can either have an upstream account at the OpenCSW buildfarm</div><div> <a href="https://www.opencsw.org/extend-it/signup/to-upstream-maintainers/">https://www.opencsw.org/extend-it/signup/to-upstream-maintainers/</a></div><div>or you could use the access of the GCC compilefarm which also includes some of</div><div>our Solaris machines (gcd210 and gcc211):</div><div> <a href="https://portal.cfarm.net/machines/list/">https://portal.cfarm.net/machines/list/</a></div><div><br></div><div>For the former I would need your intended user name, ssh public key and</div><div>permission to list you on the upstream page.</div><div>The the latter you can request an account here:</div><div> <a href="https://portal.cfarm.net/users/new/">https://portal.cfarm.net/users/new/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Happy christmas and best regards</div><div><br></div><div> — Dago</div><br><div>
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