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Running the patchbot
You can let the patchbot choose the tickets it will run on.
Install the patchbot using sage -i patchbot (warning: the current spkg in sage is not up-to-date)
(2015-04) The latest available version can be installed using sage -i http://chapoton.perso.math.cnrs.fr/patchbot-2.3.3.spkg
Run the patchbot using sage -patchbot
It is safer to run the patchbot in an unused sage install.
It will run forever, as long as it finds a ticket to work on. Tickets are only considered if their authors are trusted.
Please consider registering here if you run a patchbot. It is helpful to know whom to contact.
You can run a specific ticket by using sage -patchbot --ticket=N where N is a ticket number such as 12345.
Several other options are available, see sage -patchbot --help
--skip-base will skip the check that the base sage installation is sane.
--plugin-only will only build and run the plugins but not the tests (much quicker but less useful).
--safe-only will only test branches that only change files inside the directory "src/sage" (this is the case by default).
Configuration
By default, the patchbot should run without needing to tune its configuration.
You can use a specific configuration file using sage -patchbot --config=fullpath/config_file.json
For the complete list of configurable entities, see the code of the get_config function in https://github.com/robertwb/sage-patchbot/blob/master/src/patchbot.py. The base patchbot configuration can be found there. All of these settings can be overridden by passing a config file which is treated as a json overlay on these defaults.
For example, to let the tickets of user "niceguy" be given some priority, use:
- {"bonus": {"niceguy": 200}}
To give preference to a component you care about, use
- {"bonus": {"combinatorics": 200}}
To avoid the use of ccache, use:
- {"use_ccache": false}
To run only at night, use
- {"time_of_day": "22-7"}
A more complex example of config file could be:
- {"bonus": {"niceguy": 200, "needs_work": -20}, "use_ccache": false, "safe_only": true, "skip_base": true}
Note that the booleans must be written with no capital first letter.
The config will be read again between every run, hence it allows live configuration of the patchbot.
Looking at patchbot activities
To see the last ticket tested by patchbots, you can have a look here