[ I know this is rather late, but... ]
On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 06:08 , Max Horn wrote:
> It's like testing in debian, it will contains broken packages!
> You gotta expect it. Not that we are not trying to avoid this
> and to fix it, but our resources are limited.
Testing (currently "woody") in Debian does not contain
non-installable packages. The archive maintainence scripts don't
move non-installable packages to testing. You're thinking of
unstable ("sid").
There are even rumors that Debian's testing might be of
releasable quality ;-)
> One more thing: my focus is definitly not on end users. My
> focus is first on me, and then on users.
Get your priorities strait! There ought to be several more
things before "end users."
> Sure, I would love that. Give me a DP-800 or faster machine,
> and pay me a salary, and I will do it immediatly. :-)
LOL.
>
> 1) Asking SF for permission to host 4-6 GB instead of the 2 GB
> they already endure.
Maybe more space than this. But if this is the biggest hurdle,
we'd be 95% there.
>
> 2) The tool chain for maintaining a bindist must be updated to
> support bindist. It must be improved to allow easy use, and be
> made "fool proof"
Nothing is fool proof. But there is already freely-available
software that would do most of it, courtesy our friends at
Debian who do it for over 9,000 packages.
>
> 3) The people that are doing this must be trustworthy.
No more trustworthy than the people who commit the .info and
.patch files, though.
However, with autobuilders and fakeroot, we could use the
sourceforge compile farm. [ Note: I'm attempting to port
fakeroot... not much free time lately, though ]
>
> 4) We need a QA team that checks if this unstable bindist is
> actually usable
Not really. It would be no worse than today, when we don't have
checks if source is buildable.
Though if we want it, Debian has code to do it.
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