The LLVM compiler infrastructure uses a range of resources for testing various project components, including Buildbots, Buildkite, and GitHub Actions. However, the diversity of these technologies can be confusing, particularly for new maintainers. I personally found it challenging to understand. The introduction of the new CI/CD admin role and the discussions in the RFC are promising developments that should help clarify these complexities.

AMD ROCm™ is based on the LLVM project, which is why AMD is deeply invested in supporting its development. This includes providing resources to test the AMDGPU code generation backend and various GPU offloading programming models. Consequently, AMD maintains a range of upstream buildbots for this purpose.

In this presentation, I discuss the motivation and objectives behind the AMD ROCm™ compiler buildbots and related initiatives. I share my two-year journey, which began with inheriting a single buildbot, then another, and eventually maintaining multiple machines and bot configurations. I delve into the technical challenges I encountered and the solutions I implemented. I also touch on non-technical issues from my perspective and how they were resolved by both me and the community. The presentation concludes with a forward-looking perspective on potential additions to the upstream test infrastructure to address existing blind spots from our point of view.