On 6/14/2012 8:20 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
On 6/14/12 5:04 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:53:51AM -0400, Rob Weir wrote:
I've seeing a lot of bug fixes coming in. This is great!
But none of us are perfect. Sometimes bug fixes don't work or fixing
one bug causes another problem. That is why we test. And it is
best to test a bug fix before too much time has elapsed.
Would it make sense to agree on a date to post an updated dev
snapshot, so we can verify the bug fixes and ensure that no new
instability has been introduced? Maybe get into the practice of doing
this regularly, e.g., every 1 or 2 weeks or something.
IMO first we should decide if building 3.4.1 alphas/betas or 3.5 Developer
Snapshots; yes, the naming is a mess, we should clear this up, also
clear the page
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Unofficial+Developer+Snapshots
IIRC in OOo times, Developer Snapshots where builds from the main code
line, for example http://hg.services.openoffice.org/DEV300/
Betas where from the release code line, for example
http://hg.services.openoffice.org/OOO340/
http://hg.services.openoffice.org/OOO330/
http://hg.services.openoffice.org/OOO320/
I guess we could build both, at different intervals, a 3.5 Dev.Snap. per
month and a 3.4.1 beta every week or two, for example.
When you see my proposed schedule for 3.4.1 I have proposed to start dev
builds for 3.4.1 with the beginning of June. We are working on setting
up some local machines that allow us to automate this a little bit. I
hope we can start at least next week with this.
And I agree to Ariel that it make sense to start with dev builds for 3.5
(trunk) as well. And ideally we can use the binaries from the build bots
directly. As I learned today we changed the configure flags already and
we should check if we can these builds directly. Or if not we should
check what we need to fix to make them usable. That would of course make
things easier.
I think the builds from the buildbot could be directly used. I think
there are a couple of things that would need to be changed:
- create separate builds for 3.4.1 and trunk
- create weekly 'dev builds' that will be a bit different than the
nightlies, with extra steps required and correct configure options.
- create specific build for weekly rat + coverity + ??? for code
analysis that does not need to be run daily (or nightly)
A.
Juergen
