iPXE-O-Matic

[robinsmidsrod]

(2011-06-11 21:38)hsuanyeh Wrote:  I'd suggest a name without the "O-Matic" root. How about "Romantic"?

No name for the thing has been talked about on irc, except that it will probably be hosted as build.ipxe.org, and that it would be a web frontend to the compilation process that allows a web user to build any commit with modifications to config/*.h type settings, modified DEBUG values and possibly an embedded script via POST.

I suggested that the build request could be queued via a JSON request, but mcb30 wanted something that used path-info and the query string instead, so that it was possible to build permalinks to certain configurations on the fly (as people need them).

mcb30 ensured me that the ipxe build process was fast enough so that we could just build on the fly without any request queue management, but I think that might not scale well and will make it harder to handle multiple concurrent build requests from different clients (for different commits).

Hopefully this post will spark some more discussion on the topic.

And yes, I agree the "O-Matic" postfix should not be carried over from the earlier project.