I thought that the basic requirement is that the release manager(s) do any builds on a machine under their [exclusive] individual control. That also means satisfying baseline requirements for release builds though. That pretty much requires use of a VM if the main development system of a release manager is aligned with different tools and dependencies.
I am not so certain about putting up shared release-build VMs on non-ASF infrastructure though. One advantage to using ASF infrastructure is to bring code signing into the fold. That seems rather important down the road. - Dennis > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 10:29 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Ready to setup release build machines? > > Seeing the issue from a purely technical point of view (i.e., imagining > for a while that there is no cost associated and no Infra around), how > far are we from having an "Apache OpenOffice build farm" where we can > build releases? > > Note: this is not a buildbot. Buildbots are meant to check that the > build is not broken. They do create install sets, but for example the > Linux builds wouldn't be as compatible as the ones we build on CentOS 5. > What I mean here is VMs able to build a release. > > I think that within two-three weekends I could theoretically be able to > setup a Linux-based VM host and two KVM-based VMs running CentOS 5 (32 > and 64 bit) that would be able to build releases and that could have > shared access (i.e., not only me but other active PMC members). But this > would only cover a small subset of users. > > What about Windows? Would someone be able, under the same hypothesis, to > add a Windows VM to the stack? This would bring us much closer to full > coverage. > > And what about Mac? If I recall correctly, one is tied with Apple > hardware for MacOS X. What would be a way to bring Mac builds under > "collective" control? > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
