Hi,
Today I read on planet gnome that Kjartan Maas fixed some build problems
which he discovered when running jhbuild.
Last year for a couple of months there was the automatic gnome build
being done by Luis Villa. Unfortunately that machine broke down. IMHO it
would be a very good idea to restore that service because of:
1) broken builds are now discovered later. Therefore quite some
developers loose hacking time because one of the modules they need
doesn't build
2) Having a tinderbox makes sure that the tree is more often completely
buildable. This makes life for new contributors a lot more easy. (I
remember struggling a lot in the beginning with getting things to build
with jhbuild, because I didn't know if I was doing something wrong or
did not have the right tools installed or that the build was broken)
Main conclusion is that having a tinderbox just saves a lot of time
which can be used for hacking instead.
I can't imagine that one of the companies supporting GNOME cannot donate
a machine for doing the daily build.
Regards,
Jaap
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