On 08/23/2011 11:54 PM, Björn Michaelsen wrote:
>> I don't like how this FFe was granted; apparently LO 3.4 was never built
>> before on armel and powerpc, and promptly failed to build.,
>
> That does not match up with your requests on IRC to _not_ test in PPAs but
> directly in the distro -- unless you are searching for reasons to complain.

wrong. I didn't see any uploads to the libreoffice PPA either.  please get some 
exposure to the community early.  I did hope that the development behind the 
curtain did have an end with OOo, and didn't propagate to LO.

>> There is no reason, why such an upload cannot happen before feature freeze,
>> and no reason that these architectures are not tested before an upload.
>
> There are very good reasons for other non-x86 archs to be tested last: Build
> time, compile cylces, availability on PPAs are just a few.

there's no reason to build at least once on a developer machine. These are 
available for a reason.

> And yes, next time when I bite my nails out with some problem like the mono 
> one
> here, I will first see if somebody already caused a FTBFS with the current LO
> version by changes in one of LOs deps before trying to find what errors was
> introduced in LO.

this is development. detect it early and file reports. if mono is such a pain, 
please consider dropping support for mono.

> But rather than wasting my time argueing here, I'd prefer to get something
> constructive done, so lets please put this to rest here.

if you want to be constructive, please address these issues.

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