On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com>wrote:
> > > Might be good to indicate the provenance of this image on the wiki, and > > perhaps move it somewhere not on cloud.com, or am I misunderstanding > what > > that communicates? > > I think moving it's build process to an automated approach, and > hosting it somewhere on ASF infra is a great step for us to take. I > tried to get things moving with the infra team on this, but then I got > distracted doing other things. Perhaps we pick this back up once we > hear back from the @basho team on their DevCloud build process > changes? Okie dokie. > > I would prefer it if the instructions used Homebrew where possible. > > MacPorts is kinda lame and I would prefer not to have to install it. > Having > > said that, beggars can't be choosers I suppose. > > > > As for including them or not, the goal here is to hone this test > procedure > > so that people can be as thorough as I am without having to think about > it. > > The more we can get to just a list of commands to copy and paste into a > > terminal, the better. Makes things super easy to follow. > > Totally fair to prefer Homebrew. So here's what I'll say... I edited > the instructions in an attempt to help a Mac user. If you wanted to > run through the process and modify it to make it (1) more accurate and > (2) work from Homebrew, that would be awesome. My machine already has > everything on it, so I was struggling to remember exactly how I got > things the way they are! I know I should have a better answer than > that, but it's what I've got. > Yep, on it. > > Okay, thanks. One file will make voting much less... Complicated. > > We're going to do 1 file in tar.bz2 format. Sweet. > > We need need to be sure our release artefacts are voted on. This isn't > just > > about checking boxes so the ASF will leave us alone, it is about ensuring > > that we are producing the best possible releases for the community. > (Hint: > > We are the ASF, so this is a meaningless concept anyway. Though, I must > > admit, when I was going through incubation I used to think of it in those > > terms. "Bah, bloody ASF getting in my way again. Then one day, someone > > kindly pointed out "ASF" included me.) > > I didn't imply that ASF if "getting in the way". See my reply to Will > on how I look at the delegation of authority for podlings, and it's > implications on what it means to vote. > Understood. I think I was just feeling verbose. :) > I understand the spirit of what you are saying, but I wasn't asking > for permission. I was asking for input, and John and David gave good > feedback on the topic. > > That... we DO want to develop as a community habit. Yep, agreed. See above comment. ;) > > Okay, I just wanted to make sure there's no "source format" we could ship > > instead. > > Nope, those are keys. Okay. -- NS
