Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of vampire - savannah.nongnu.org

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi,
please e-mail me a copy of whatever source code you have at the moment. It
does not matter if it is not working; I just want to give you some advice on
licensing issues, before your project gets approved.

Regards,
Jaime

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 08:34:54AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Maxime Biais <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: vampire
> System name: vampire
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> Vampire is a remote package testing tool written in python. It takes an 
> Autotools generated tarball, uploads it on several machines, configures it, 
> runs a check sequence (usually make distcheck) and returns the results. It is 
> designed to be flexible enough to run checks on differents systems and 
> environments.
>  
> Features of vampire :
>     *  Remote access by ssh.
>     * Source upload by scp, link (for nfs use) and custom command (wget for 
> example).
>     * Configurable pool of machines (environment variables, configure flags, 
> ...).
>     * Pool of machines. It should be possible to specify several hosts with 
> the same configuration/options, and let Vampire choose the best available 
> host among the list.
>     * Configuration of schedule of host availability. It should be possible 
> to give the hours of availability of the machines and restrict their use to 
> their free time.
>     * Check the load average of machines to determine their availability.
>     * Check a list of packages. Vampire should be able to test a pool of 
> tarballs on a pool of hosts, optimizing the dispatch of the tasks.
>     * Good control on what\'s happening. If Vampire is running tests, it 
> should be possible to check the hosts involved and to stop using a particular 
> host.
>     * Give good statistics and formatted output (HTML, mail).
>     * Minimal requirements for remote hosts. In order to use a maximal amount 
> of hosts easily, it is important that Vampire does not require dedicated 
> clients or sophisticated programs on the remote hosts. Currently, it only 
> needs a shell and one network access (ssh) for interactive sessions and one 
> for tarball uploading (scp, http, ftp, nfs).
>     * While being very powerful and precise, the configuration has to remain 
> quite simple by factorizing default or common settings.
> 
> 
> 
> more information:
> (http://www.lrde.epita.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Projects/Vampire)
> 
> Other Software Required:
> python interpreter