Re: buildd administration -- TeX related FTBFS

2005-12-23 Thread Frank Küster
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I think one to ease tension is to make tetex packages to coexist in archive just like many gcc. [...] I should have been clear. I wish them to coexist only in archive but they can conflict each other to

Re: buildd administration -- TeX related FTBFS

2005-12-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 01:48:12PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I think one to ease tension is to make tetex packages to coexist in archive just like many gcc. That would be nice - but it would cause even more work, I fear. And it would be the

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Funny, I just did a Google search for site:www.debian.org cvs repository www.debian.org and there it was, plain as day. That implies that you already

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You just try to make a point out of buildd.net not having a direct source link which is completly irelevant imho. Hey, I don't care if there's a direct link or not. I care if the source is available for anyone to go download. If it's available

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-21 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 10:12:56AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: This may sound heretical to you, but I don't consider software to be DFSG-free unless there's actually a copy somewhere that people can get to. If the source is unavailable, the software isn't free, regardless of what theoretical

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-20 Thread Frank Küster
Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:34:04PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Six months is a lot of time; and experimental should provide you with the space and machine power to handle the rebuilding. I don't know of any autobuilders that build packages from sid

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-20 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: A far-east document is typeset in a certain encoding doesn't sound like an RC bug; and therefore not something that should hold up transitioning to testing. The package with the RC bug is debian-reference, which builds documents in different

Re: buildd administration -- TeX related FTBFS

2005-12-20 Thread Frank Küster
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I realize TeX is tough program to maintain. Thanks to Frank. One quick and easy way to avoid TeX related build issues are to avoid using TeX related tools during build time. So the results will be Debian only ships documentations in plain text and

Re: buildd administration -- TeX related FTBFS

2005-12-20 Thread Frank Küster
Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope situation will be better soon but I am still struggling why debiandoc-sgml-doc fails to build nicely. (Yes, I know I can get by by not checking exit code during build process. But that is not a good fix I want to do.) Any help is appreciated. The

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-20 Thread Anthony Towns
Thimo: I've uploaded an NMU to fix gnuplot bugs 321967 and 330024; this is the context. On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:07:34AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: A far-east document is typeset in a certain encoding doesn't sound like an RC bug; and therefore

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-20 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Sure, getting tetex-3.0 done would've been quicker; but it wouldn't necessarily have been quick enough -- after all, it's not ready *now* and there's been six months since sarge's release. And this isn't just *you*, everyone's in a similar position.

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-20 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 03:41:06PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Sure; but again, look at the broader context: if people aren't fixing trivial bugs like the gnuplot one, why should anyone else spend time worrying about the harder ones? Why haven't you done the appropriate NMU of gnuplot

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:54:34AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Kurt Roeckx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:34:04PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: I don't know of any autobuilders that build packages from sid against build-dependencies in experimental. I thought I did

Re: buildd administration -- TeX related FTBFS

2005-12-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I realize TeX is tough program to maintain. Thanks to Frank. One quick and easy way to avoid TeX related build issues are to avoid using TeX related tools during build time. So the results will be Debian only ships documentations in plain text and HTML. (No PS and no PDF). But is it what

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-18 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:24:39AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: No, that would be unsuitable for release. Which is a problem that should either be fixed quickly, or means you're trying to make a big enough change that you should be working out how

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-18 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:34:04PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Six months is a lot of time; and experimental should provide you with the space and machine power to handle the rebuilding. I don't know of any autobuilders that build packages from sid against build-dependencies in

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-18 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:34:04PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: I don't know of any autobuilders that build packages from sid against build-dependencies in experimental. So that's one problem. Another (mentioned previously) is the case of two packages, A and B that often should be installed

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 03:51:06PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rather, it seems much more likely that we would want to push such packages *out* of unstable. Really? So now, unstable should be maintained in a releasable state *too*? Not

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Funny, I just did a Google search for site:www.debian.org cvs repository www.debian.org and there it was, plain as day. That implies that you already know/suspect it is in cvs. Goswin, with all due

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-17 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:24:39AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: No, that would be unsuitable for release. Which is a problem that should either be fixed quickly, or means you're trying to make a big enough change that you should be working out how to get it done without breaking other

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 03:51:06PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rather, it seems much more likely that we would want to push such packages *out* of unstable. Really? So now, unstable should be

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Generally, experimental fits the above role. Unstable's for uploading new development of packages that will hopefully work, but might turn out not to. In particular, though, they need to be fixed pretty quickly -- six months in experimental, and

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:43:05AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: If your package isn't going to be suitable for release; it should probably be in experimental instead, which is even autobuilt these days.

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:24:39AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Much worse, there are a couple of cases where we had to NMU the packages, either because the maintainers where inactive, or in one case because he said no time here, just go ahead. Except for this one case this couldn't have been

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, lets take an example: Where is the source thrown at you for www.debian.org? It isn't. You have to ask around, get to know or dig deep along the links to find cvs.debian.org. Funny, I just did a

Re: buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So for various reasons the buildd.net status code is not considered ready to be integrated on buildd.debian.org, either by its author or by its maintainer or by Ryan Murray. Fine, I understand. Well, after looking at

Re: buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:02:01PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: (The contact addresses and machine up/down statuses are a valuable part of buildd.net which *isn't* there, but that's another matter entirely, which requires different and additional work.) The graphs are also not

Re: buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-16 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Well, after looking at http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/ , I concur that it's as good a general interface to buildd status as buildd.net, and much better than the http://buildd.debian.org/ interface. Where did you find that url? In a random mailing list

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-15 Thread Frank Küster
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:26:50PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: It sounds to me like what is needed as a tag for bugs that tells QA (you post noted that the release team would ignore RC bugs on packages not in testing) that it can ignore those bugs.

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-15 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 10:43:05AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: If your package isn't going to be suitable for release; it should probably be in experimental instead, which is even autobuilt these days. There's almost no reason to have RC bugs that

buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
So for various reasons the buildd.net status code is not considered ready to be integrated on buildd.debian.org, either by its author or by its maintainer or by Ryan Murray. Fine, I understand. Well, after looking at http://buildd.debian.org/~jeroen/status/ , I concur that it's as good a

Re: buildd.debian.org (was Re: buildd administration

2005-12-14 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:23:48AM +, Nathanael Nerode wrote: (The contact addresses and machine up/down statuses are a valuable part of buildd.net which *isn't* there, but that's another matter entirely, which requires different and additional work.) However, even though this is on

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-14 Thread Joe Smith
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 03:46:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: You have failed to detail any particular difficulty that this causes, I'm pretty sure I saw him do this already, by noting that it increases the

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm pretty sure I saw him do this already, by noting that it increases the number of packages that the release and QA teams have to keep track of. Seems to me that packages which aren't in testing should not occupy the release team's time at all. Just

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:26:50PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: It sounds to me like what is needed as a tag for bugs that tells QA (you post noted that the release team would ignore RC bugs on packages not in testing) that it can ignore those bugs. If your package isn't going to be suitable for

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:26:50PM -0500, Joe Smith wrote: It sounds to me like what is needed as a tag for bugs that tells QA (you post noted that the release team would ignore RC bugs on packages not in testing) that it can ignore those bugs.

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 03:46:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:51:36PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: (a) seeing if the FTBFS can be fixed immediately, and

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:52:22AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: It got proposed because no one was able to give correct explanations about why it hadn't been included. Heh. I'm almost morbidly curious enough to ask what you think the correct

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 07:24:00PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: That sort of information is helpful to tell you when there is a problem, but that's only the first step. ATM, the corresponding thing would be to (gosh!) setup a webpage tracking

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: C'mon, this is a free software project. The obvious first step for providing better infrastructure would be to make that infrastructure publically available for

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:40:11PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Requeue requests are part of handling logs... You get a failed log, you analyse it to say oh, that's a transient error due to other

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thiemo Seufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: [snip] A similar issue I noted in the past is the big number of build failures that don't get tagged 'Failed'. I tried working on classifying them, but got bored so increadibly fast that I gave up, and decided for myself

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 06:50:26PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And when you try you get screamed at and flamed as witnessed in the huge buildd flame fest the last time. Iirc some 3000 packages were build outside the official buildd network

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok, lets take an example: Where is the source thrown at you for www.debian.org? It isn't. You have to ask around, get to know or dig deep along the links to find cvs.debian.org. Funny, I just did a Google search for site:www.debian.org cvs

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-12 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:46:10AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Even if the current software isn't publically available for whatever reason (personally, I'm putting my money on hacked into place over time and not particularly easy to massage into a form someone else could run, That's one part

In-Reply-To [was: Re: buildd administration]

2005-12-12 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Nathanael Nerode wrote: This is an omnibus reply. Sorry about the thread-breaking, but I'm on yet *another* computer, and I can't seem to find a mailer which respects the In-Reply-To headers from the web pages or lets me add my own. Off-topic, but Moz Thunderbird in Debian at least does the

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-11 Thread Frank Küster
Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - How can I get information from inside a buildd, e.g. temporary files created during a failed build. First pass answer: you can't. sbuild (tries to) clean up after builds. Alternate: try to get

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 06:50:26PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And when you try you get screamed at and flamed as witnessed in the huge buildd flame fest the last time. Iirc some 3000 packages were build outside the official buildd network across the involved archs at that time. And

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:51:36PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: (a) seeing if the FTBFS can be fixed immediately, and finding it can't (b) documenting (this is the transparent bit, so pay

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Then you're not maintaining your packages properly, and you're making life more difficult for the rest of the project out of spite. Notice that in disagreeing with your statement, I have also gone out of my way to answer the specific questions you

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 08:22:24AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: If a package is failing to build or to function on some architecture, your job as that package's maintainer is see if it can be fixed (talking to porters and/or upstream if it's beyond

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Brian Nelson
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:27:10PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: I also see the keyring's been updated earlier this week, including both a replacement key for Horms from late last

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 10 décembre 2005 à 11:51 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:56:24PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: How many developer resignations will you need to understand inaction from people at key positions sucks the fun out of things in a worse way? Yeah,

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:47:59PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:27:10 +0100, Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Where should I best complain for your NM application to be cancelled? Err, so if a NM candidate speaks as openly as some DD's do, they get

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 09:18:28AM +0100, Ingo Juergensmann wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 08:22:24AM +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: BTW: is there a way to get build failures by mail? especially from the architectures which are not visible on buildd.debian.org/PTS like hurd and bsd. Took me

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Sat, 2005-12-10 at 02:40 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not really convinced that such an approach would have a significant effect as long as you're not measuring existing DD's to the same standards. Which, as far as I can see, does not

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:24:00 -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An excellent example of this is the publication of the NEW queue. Now that everyone can see the NEW queue, I don't see any of the big public criticism about slow processing. I have to disagree here. Things have

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 02:40:11 +, Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not really convinced that such an approach would have a significant effect as long as you're not measuring existing DD's to the same standards. Which, as far as I can see,

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:52:22AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: It got proposed because no one was able to give correct explanations about why it hadn't been included. Heh. I'm almost morbidly curious enough to ask what you think the correct explanation of why it hasn't been included is,

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: Since this point obviously needs to be made clearer, I guess it's time to have some more rounds of removing packages that have long outstanding RC bugs. I guess I'll coordinate with the RM team to do this sometime over Christmas/New Year. (The

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are currently no public build logs for hurd-i386, but we are working on getting them published on experimentel.ftbfs.de as well. If you can get them into http://people.debian.org/~igloo/status.php, that would be wonderful. I read that page

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: [snip] A similar issue I noted in the past is the big number of build failures that don't get tagged 'Failed'. I tried working on classifying them, but got bored so increadibly fast that I gave up, and decided for myself this should be something the porters should

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Nathanael Nerode
This is an omnibus reply. Sorry about the thread-breaking, but I'm on yet *another* computer, and I can't seem to find a mailer which respects the In-Reply-To headers from the web pages or lets me add my own. == I would like to note that I have made a practical and *new* suggestion for

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: FTBFS issues are the most common though, as well as the easiest to resolve; your point would carry more weight if you took the time to fix yours first. (Looking through -private, I saw someone remark that 1000 bugs was too many -- we have got 1400

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: (a) seeing if the FTBFS can be fixed immediately, and finding it can't (b) documenting (this is the transparent bit, so pay attention) that fact by not having s390 incorrectly listed as a supported arch in the source and ensuring it

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (BTW, I see #335981 and #336371 haven't received a response since late October; or has raptor been down that entire time, so that you haven't been able to diagnose it further -- it certainly seems down now?) Upstream is working on #335981 and #336371. In

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 03:51:36PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: (a) seeing if the FTBFS can be fixed immediately, and finding it can't (b) documenting (this is the transparent bit, so pay attention) that fact by not having s390

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-10 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 06:29:03PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: I would like to note that I have made a practical and *new* suggestion for dealing with some of these problems (contrary to suggestions that I'm just flaming), because nobody's picked up on my idea. Well, it's hard to

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Frank Küster
Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:32:40PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Feature requests and other things are always welcome! I can't know what you want until you tell it to me. ;) Nothing - these the questions I was mainly interested in regarding

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:43:36AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:32:40PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Feature requests and other things are always welcome! I can't know what you want until you tell it to me. ;)

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Frank Küster
Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 09:43:36AM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A buildd admin doesn't see much more than what you can see in the build logs. Basically the build logs is all a buildd admin see. But

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:16:37PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: That's non-sensical. Everything the buildds do is logged pretty much immediately onto http://buildd.debian.org/, which also provides long running statistics on how effective the

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: To respond preemptively to one expected reply: I don't have time to answer these questions is not a reasonable excuse, because if they don't have time, they need to ask for help.

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:49:05PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:16:37PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: That's non-sensical. Everything the buildds do is logged pretty much immediately onto http://buildd.debian.org/,

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: I also see the keyring's been updated earlier this week, including both a replacement key for Horms from late last month, and Chip's requested updates. Indeed, complaining on debian-devel appears to get results, doesn't it?

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 09 décembre 2005 à 16:27 +0100, Michael Banck a écrit : On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Indeed, complaining on debian-devel appears to get results, doesn't it? At least, that's the conclusion that a rational outside observer would come to.

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 09 décembre 2005 à 12:07 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : That's non-sensical. Everything the buildds do is logged pretty much immediately onto http://buildd.debian.org/, which also provides long running statistics on how effective the buildds are, and even a schedule of what the

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 09 décembre 2005 à 23:49 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : How many more years are we going to waste time with this hysteria before realising it doesn't achieve anything but rapidly sucking the fun out of things? How many developer resignations will you need to understand inaction

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Erinn Clark
* Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005:12:09 17:48 +0100]: Le vendredi 09 d?cembre 2005 ? 12:07 +1000, Anthony Towns a ?crit : Ingo's burnt a fair number of bridges wrt buildd issues; I'm sorry, but I don't really care if volunteers decline to work with people who're obnoxious and

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Le vendredi 09 décembre 2005 à 12:07 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : That's non-sensical. Everything the buildds do is logged pretty much immediately onto http://buildd.debian.org/, which also provides long running statistics on how effective the

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 12:07:11 +1000, Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au said: That's not a productive attitude. If they don't have time to answer questions, they almost certainly don't have time to ask for help, either. When that cirucmstance has arisen, the only way out is for others to

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:27:10 +0100, Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: I also see the keyring's been updated earlier this week, including both a replacement key for Horms from late last month, and Chip's requested updates.

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Erinn Clark
* Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005:12:09 12:47 -0600]: Err, so if a NM candidate speaks as openly as some DD's do, they get threatened with having their applications cancelled because of them speaking their minds? What is this, a munich beer hall in 1933? Isn't the point

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:48:13PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 09 décembre 2005 à 12:07 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : That's non-sensical. Everything the buildds do is logged pretty much immediately onto http://buildd.debian.org/, which also provides long running statistics

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, December 9, 2005 20:02, Erinn Clark wrote: Surely flaming people on mailing lists as a way to get things done is not something people want to encourage in NMs... right? Wouldn't Debian want to find people who can think of new and inventive ways to achieve goals rather than resorting to

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:02:17 -0500, Erinn Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005:12:09 12:47 -0600]: Err, so if a NM candidate speaks as openly as some DD's do, they get threatened with having their applications cancelled because of them speaking their minds?

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Erinn Clark
* Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005:12:09 13:27 -0600]: I'm surprised you think raising ones voice civilly in concern about a problem area in Debian is not playing nicely with others. Is your contention that some volunteers are so much more equal than others that no voices

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 15:06:26 -0500, Erinn Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005:12:09 13:27 -0600]: I'm surprised you think raising ones voice civilly in concern about a problem area in Debian is not playing nicely with others. Is your contention that some

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - How can I get information from inside a buildd, e.g. temporary files created during a failed build. First pass answer: you can't. sbuild (tries to) clean up after builds. Alternate: try to get a porter to redo the build and give you

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Blars Blarson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Setting up a buildd system do not require extra privileges from the Debian project, as far as I know. Any Debian developer with his public key in the keyring can sign uploads. and get threats from the current buildd administrator to make

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Erinn Clark
* Erinn Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005:12:09 12:45 -0500]: * Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005:12:09 17:48 +0100]: Le vendredi 09 d?cembre 2005 ? 12:07 +1000, Anthony Towns a ?crit : Ingo's burnt a fair number of bridges wrt buildd issues; I'm sorry, but I don't really care if

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Ingo Juergensmann
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:08:55PM -0500, Erinn Clark wrote: Where is the buildd.net software located? I poked around on the site but I couldn't find it except for the update-buildd.net script. (Replying to myself after getting an answer on IRC from Ingo...) The short summary to my answer

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Ingo Juergensmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please stop assuming wrong facts. As I already stated several times before: Ryan was offered to integrate the buildd.net software. He declined with the argument that all information is already available on buildd.d.o. That's a clear sign that he

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread John Hasler
Erinn Clark writes: Surely flaming people on mailing lists as a way to get things done is not something people want to encourage in NMs... right? Right. After all, as we all know, no DD would ever do such a thing. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 10:19:46AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: I'm not saying that this all needs to be publicly logged. I don't give a rat's ass whether it is or not. But please don't stand there saying that the process is completely transparent. I don't believe I said that. I don't

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:56:24PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 09 décembre 2005 à 23:49 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : How many more years are we going to waste time with this hysteria before realising it doesn't achieve anything but rapidly sucking the fun out of things?

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 04:27:10PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:52:31PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: I also see the keyring's been updated earlier this week, including both a replacement key for Horms from late last month, and Chip's requested updates. Indeed,

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 05:48:13PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: There is absolutely zero documentation on how the buildd network works. If the documentation's insufficient, ask politely for help. buildd.debian.org points you at wanna-build and its svn repo, which has some reasonably extensive

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le vendredi 09 décembre 2005 à 23:49 +1000, Anthony Towns a écrit : How many more years are we going to waste time with this hysteria before realising it doesn't achieve anything but rapidly sucking the fun out of things? How many developer

Re: buildd administration

2005-12-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Thijs Kinkhorst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not really convinced that such an approach would have a significant effect as long as you're not measuring existing DD's to the same standards. Which, as far as I can see, does not happen. A procedure is in place for developers to be ejected from

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