On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org>wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 07:41:35PM +0100, Raphael Bircher wrote: > > Hi Dave > > > > Just to clarify. Mechtilde is a contributor since day 0 - 7 years. > > She is one of the moast experienced QA here, and a verry skilled > > manual tester. So she is not a newbe at all. > > > > I build only for mac, for linux i point to the Buildbot too. If this > > builds don't work for a Linux distribution it is a serios problem, > > so it's right to bring it on the list. > > > > What Mechtilde miss, are de frequently snapshots from the project it > > self, not from same contributors. The test build should be from the > > same mashine as the final release. You can build AOO on two > > computers with Linux, you will have two different builds even you > > use the same revision. > > > > For this reason, test builds has to come from the same mashin as the > > release. For my point of view it's not a good idea to use a > > contributors computer for it. So the main plattform Wendows, Linux, > > Mac realy need a Buildbot, and this is not a "nice to have" it's a > > *realy urgent task* > > > > And if one of this Buildbot produce unusable builds, then we have a > > serios problem. > > Those build are unusable due to the EPM version, a subject that has been > discussed since the epm removal, so I have no idea why the buildboot > ended with a system epm. > > IMO the Linux build boot should produce also RPM packages, not only > DEBs. And nightly builds are useful for keeping the code base buildable, > but for testing purposes it would be more useful a weekly developer > snapshot. > +1 I'm not sure its worth anyone's time to try to do distro-specific builds. If we can get out RPM and Deb packaging, that would be great! > > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats." -- *Colonial American proverb*