The future of FTBFS?

2011-04-07 Thread Matt Domsch
As my job and family responsibilities have shifted over time, I have been giving less and less attention to the FTBFS (fails to build from source) process that I started 5 years ago on a see, it _can_ be done lark. I think FTBFS has been valuable. Through the process, hundreds, maybe even a

Re: The future of FTBFS?

2011-04-07 Thread Jon Ciesla
Matt Domsch wrote: As my job and family responsibilities have shifted over time, I have been giving less and less attention to the FTBFS (fails to build from source) process that I started 5 years ago on a see, it _can_ be done lark. I think FTBFS has been valuable. Through the process,

Re: The future of FTBFS?

2011-04-07 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:02:31 -0500, Matt wrote: I think FTBFS has been valuable. But of course! Sure, I get the occasional why are you filling my mailbox with this message, [...] Wow. Unbelievable. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: The future of FTBFS?

2011-04-07 Thread Jon Ciesla
Michael Schwendt wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2011 10:02:31 -0500, Matt wrote: I think FTBFS has been valuable. But of course! Sure, I get the occasional why are you filling my mailbox with this message, [...] Wow. Unbelievable. How dare you provide me with helpful

Re: The future of FTBFS?

2011-04-07 Thread Jonathan Underwood
On 7 April 2011 16:02, Matt Domsch matt_dom...@dell.com wrote: Question is, is it valuable enough to the Project as a whole, that someone else should take it on now? Absolutely! Actually, have you published you use to BFS the scripts anywhere? Jonathan. -- devel mailing list

Re: The future of FTBFS?

2011-04-07 Thread Matt Domsch
On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 05:11:00PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: On 7 April 2011 16:02, Matt Domsch matt_dom...@dell.com wrote: Question is, is it valuable enough to the Project as a whole, that someone else should take it on now? Absolutely! Actually, have you published you use to

Re: The future of FTBFS?

2011-04-07 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:44, Matt Domsch matt_dom...@dell.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 05:11:00PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: On 7 April 2011 16:02, Matt Domsch matt_dom...@dell.com wrote: Question is, is it valuable enough to the Project as a whole, that someone else should take

Re: The future of FTBFS?

2011-04-07 Thread seth vidal
On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 11:52 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:44, Matt Domsch matt_dom...@dell.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 05:11:00PM +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: On 7 April 2011 16:02, Matt Domsch matt_dom...@dell.com wrote: Question is, is it