Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_wg] Re: [boinc_alpha] Time for version 7.8.1?

2017-08-14 Thread Laurence Field
Hi David, On 13/08/17 01:15, David Anderson wrote: Because as of now I'm the release manager for the client: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/AdminRoles I've solicited volunteers to fill this role but no one has offered. This is a catch 22. If the project is not welcoming to new

Re: [boinc_dev] Software development and branches, was Re: [boinc_projects] keywords

2017-08-04 Thread Laurence Field
Hi David, On 04/08/17 23:17, David Anderson wrote: It's simple: 1) fork master, e.g. to client_release_xxx. It's not stable at this point. 2) test client_release_xxx (e.g. using Alpha testers) fix bugs, repeat. Now it's stable. 3) only backport bug fixes to client_release_xxx. It

Re: [boinc_dev] Time for version 7.8.1?

2017-08-04 Thread Laurence Field
Hi David, You can also modify the command prompt to show which branch you are in. https://coderwall.com/p/fasnya/add-git-branch-name-to-bash-prompt This is useful, even when not doing releases. Cheers, Laurence On 04/08/17 21:17, David Anderson wrote: Having the branch in a separate

Re: [boinc_dev] Software development and branches, was Re: [boinc_projects] keywords

2017-08-07 Thread Laurence Field
HI Oliver, On 07/08/17 09:55, Oliver Bock wrote: As Laurence pointed out: release branches are to stabilize and fix releases. This is not what I intended to communicate. When the master (which should be stable) has the required features and been tested, a release is made and a branch

Re: [boinc_dev] 7.8.3 client released for testing

2017-10-13 Thread Laurence Field
Hi David, For Linux, the client is in the Debian experimental repository and we are working to get it into the Fedora testing repository. The following issue is high-priority for the Linux client. I would not call it a blocker as we could patch the code again but as this issue was reported

Re: [boinc_dev] 7.8.3 client released for testing

2017-10-13 Thread Laurence Field
Hi David, The build is failing on Fedora 28 and requires this fix which is already waiting to be merged. https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/2092 Regards, Laurence On 13/10/17 23:20, Laurence Field wrote: [This sender failed our fraud detection checks and may not be who they appear

Re: [boinc_dev] release 7.8.3?

2017-10-16 Thread Laurence Field
Hi Steffen, On 16/10/17 16:46, Steffen Möller wrote: And he also builds the complete packages together with the server side components afterwards that go to the experimental section of Debian - see the boinc-server-maker package

Re: [boinc_dev] Linux BOINC advice

2017-10-23 Thread Laurence Field
message --- Laurence Field, Linux release manager for BOINC wrote: The BOINC client v7.8.3 is available for testing on Linux For Debian/Ubuntu sudo apt-add-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install boinc-manager For Fedora/RedHat/CentOS sudo dnf

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC 7.8.4 for Mac

2017-11-10 Thread Laurence Field
Hi Charlie, I don't see a 7.8.4 tag in git. Cheers, Laurence On 10/11/17 23:27, Charlie Fenton wrote: I have built BOINC 7.8.4 for the Mac and uploaded it to . This fixes the calculation of GPU memory when running under OS 10.13 High Sierra. Cheers,

Re: [boinc_dev] Linux build issues

2017-11-16 Thread Laurence Field
Hi Kathryn, Why are you trying to build from source? It should already be available for Raspian. Cheers, Laurence On 16/11/17 20:28, Kathryn Marks wrote: Hi all I'm having a difficult time building the client on Raspian. The OS is fully updated everyday. I've solved previous errors,

Re: [boinc_dev] Linux build issues

2017-11-16 Thread Laurence Field
Hi Kathryn On 16/11/17 23:09, Steffen Möller wrote: Dependencies for Debian should also apply for Rapbian. You find them here: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-boinc/boinc.git/tree/debian/control which includes a dependency to || |libnotify-dev Enjoy! | || Yes and as all the hard work

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] BOINC - October 2017 VirtualBox and VBoxWrapper updates

2017-11-06 Thread Laurence Field
Hi Juha, On 06/11/17 16:48, Juha Sointusalo wrote: The reason I tested on LHC is that I wanted to test on real world apps, LHC has real world apps and I have already signed up there. That's all. Maybe LHC-dev would have been better choice or maybe I should have asked you for permission

Re: [boinc_dev] Client Release 7.10

2018-01-10 Thread Laurence Field
The lhc@home server was upgraded in December. Can you test with that? Send from Huawei SCL-L01 Original Message Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Client Release 7.10 From: David Anderson To: boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu CC: The main new feature is streamlined download/attach. To fully