> Well, SPARC's (and at some point Alpha and Opteron 240 SMP) at CSC are > on private network behind 9.1 i586 box. I can't see anything that > should stop us from creating the extranet and have the builds automated > and > coordinated. Some centralised user authentication might be a good idea > at some point if we have more developers.
I think this needs to be addressed for Mandrakesoft's uses anyway. Why do I have seperate accounts for bugzilla (ok, at least the account works for the wiki), build machines, MandrakeClub, MandrakeExpert (I should be able to merge MandrakeExpert and MandrakeClub, but it doesn't get the MandrakeExpert account I wanted, since I had two ...)? I also think that applying the technology that we are shipping should be done more. A better implementation of something like this: http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/samba-ldap-advanced.php may be an idea ... each facility hosting an extranet member server could have an LDAP slave and authenticate any necessary services against it. > > The only drawback would be probably the fact, that single development > machines without dedicated front-end might need some more work to > configure everything, but I think that it'll be worth it. > > Stefan? Olivier? Gwenole? What do you think? > > At the moment, to my knowledge we have the following machines > _dedicated_ to non-intel cooker development (please, developers, fill > in all blanks): > - others? Sorry, we only have x86 :-(. > > I think, that only computers solely dedicated (i.e. not used in any > other way) may be listed here and eventually included in the extranet. > > Because CSC uses Mandrake on all workstations and servers, and we're > very happy with it (kudos to both cooker and core development teams!) > our position is to support development of the distribution by providing > hardware and network resources in return. Naturally we're aware that > hosting the machines is serious commitment (especially sustaining the > support over time) and we're ready to fulfil it. BTW, this is very cool! > > Maybe if we manage to pull this off before 9.2 and have all the packages > rebuilt, MandrakeSoft will be interested in releasing 9.2 for i586, > x86_64, Alpha, Sparc64 and PPC? Wouldn't it be the first commercial > distribution (in couple of years) that allows to run the same system > across 5 architectures? I think there's a lot of work to be done before that happens, but a nice dream ... Regards, Buchan
