Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter

2011-04-07 Thread Scott Silva
on 4/5/2011 11:46 PM John R Pierce spake the following: On 04/05/11 11:32 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: A lot of the anxiety seems to be about the silence about any kind of progress. there's a fair amount of traffic on centos-devel archives here,

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter (was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-06 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
This was done on a trailling basis for a couple side arch's builders by me and another. It turns out to be a lot of chatter and 'noise', and not much 'signal' Although it might not be of any real use in indicating when a version would be ready, I think it helps a lot psychologically when

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter

2011-04-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/05/11 11:32 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: A lot of the anxiety seems to be about the silence about any kind of progress. there's a fair amount of traffic on centos-devel archives here, http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-April/thread.html

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter

2011-04-06 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 4/6/11, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 04/05/11 11:32 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: A lot of the anxiety seems to be about the silence about any kind of progress. there's a fair amount of traffic on centos-devel archives here,

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter

2011-04-06 Thread Alain Péan
Le 06/04/2011 09:08, Emmanuel Noobadmin a écrit : Apologies, I wasn't subscribed to the dev list since I didn't think I would had been able to contribute anything. Fortunately, I'm also not fixated about when exactly is Centos 6 coming out. Maybe the standard reply to those chasing for

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 07:32 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: Although it might not be of any real use in indicating when a version would be ready, I think it helps a lot psychologically when people can see that something is being done, even if it's discovering bugs that will push back the release. As

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter (was: Centos 6Update?)

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Digimer wrote: As an aside, does the CentOS build environment (understanding that it needs to be built, too), able to tweet something like last build; X packages OK, Y packages failed? This was done on a trailling basis for a couple

[CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter (was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-04 Thread Digimer
On 04/04/2011 06:45 PM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: Maybe its users need to realize that: 1. This entire thing is run by volunteers 2. This has been a very difficult release because of various apparent RedHat changes 3. Some releases were be faster---or slower--- than others 4. Centos

[CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter (was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Digimer wrote: As an aside, does the CentOS build environment (understanding that it needs to be built, too), able to tweet something like last build; X packages OK, Y packages failed? This was done on a trailling basis for a couple side arch's builders by me and another.

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter (was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-04 Thread Peter A
On Monday, April 04, 2011 10:43:08 PM R P Herrold wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Digimer wrote: As an aside, does the CentOS build environment (understanding that it needs to be built, too), able to tweet something like last build; X packages OK, Y packages failed? This was done on a