From 317e08567579b265845b1828c7887dddf79c1007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: P. J. McDermott <pehjota>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:06:37 -0400
Subject: Describe proposed build daemon infrastructure.

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+[[!meta title="Build Daemon Infrastructure"]]
+
+Summary
+=======
+
+This pages documents the proposed infrastructure for handling package uploads,
+builds, and archive inclusions.
+
+
+Process
+=======
+
+The following diagram summarizes the process:
+
+[[!img dev/buildd-infra.png size="x450" alt="buildd infrastructure diagram"]]
+
+The general process is as follows:
+
+ 1. A maintainer uploads a source package (not necessarily his or her own –
+    non-maintainer uploads are allowed) and changes file over SFTP into the
+    review queue.  (This can be done by hand or with the assistance of a script
+    similar to Debian's dupload and dput scripts.)
+ 2. A reviewer (whose job is similar to that of Debian's ftpmaster team members)
+    examines the changes file and, if necessary, the source package itself and
+    decides to either accept or reject the upload.  If accepted, the package is
+    added to the master build queue and all of the relevant build queues.
+ 3. Each build daemon periodically checks the queues for which it is
+    responsible.  If packages are waiting to be built, it attempts to build the
+    oldest one (first in, first out).  If the build is successful, the daemon
+    adds the produced binary packages to the archive queue.  Either way, the
+    queue run ends with the removal of the processed source package from the
+    relevant queue.
+ 4. When the master build daemon detects that a package no longer exists in any
+    architecture build queue, it moves the source package and changes file into
+    the archive queue.
+ 5. When the archive inclusion daemon finds a source package in the archive
+    queue, it includes in the archive the source package along with all of the
+    built binary packages.
+ 6. Users can finally download the source and binary packages from the archive
+    using opkg.
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