new project: git-autobuilder

    I have ported the old clearcase autobuilder over to use
git. I have
also generalized it a bit so that it would be more useful
for generic
projects, and people  who want to run their own
autobuilder (hey BDC guys).

    Features:
 -- clone git repos fresh every build
 -- only rebuild project when new changes are checked in
 -- send notifications on success/failure via scripts

    The point of the autobuilder is that it will track the
latest
changes in the repo and rebuild on every checkin.

    Check it out from git:

  # git clone http://
linux.dell.com/git/git-autobuilder.git 

    Set up the repos you want to autobuild by editing
repo.conf. The
default repo.conf is set up to build all of the opensource
projects from
the internal-only Dell git repository. For external folks,
just replace
hb.us.dell.com with linux.dell.com repo address.

    Run the autobuilder script: ./git-autobuilder.sh. The
autobuilder
will spawn itself into the background. The file build.log
contains a log
of the build process. The builds/ directory contains
directories for
each project being built, and the logfiles for each
individual build are
copied there. The last failed build as well as teh last
successful build
are saved.

    To stop the autobuilder, remove the
"autobuilder.lock" file. The
autobuilder will detect this and stop within a few seconds.
Note that
the autobuilder will stop, but it will not kill any current
in-progress
build.

    The 'notify/' directory contains scripts that are run on
autobuild
completion. The notify scripts have the following format:
   {success,failure}-{built,nobuild}-$(hostname)*.sh

    -- scripts named success-* are built when a build exits
successfully
    -- scripts named failure-* are built when a build exits
with any
        failure code.
    -- scripts named *-built-* are run when an actual build
takes place
    -- scripts named *-nobuild-* are run when the build is
skipped due
        to no checkins or on problems with git (could not
clone repo,
        etc)
    -- scripts have a hostname component, so you can check
all of the
        scripts into the change control, and run multiple
autobuilders.
        The default host is 'mock' and you can use these as
an example.

--
Michael
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