On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > I do agree with Scott that import reliability is really critical to adoption. > You can't use UDD if the branch is out of date! BFBIP seems like a step after > getting wide adoption of 'bzr branch' instead of 'apt-get source'.
They seem pretty complementary to me: I mean, if you can push(*) to build, thats removes a manual step from the pipeline : its a pretty significant change. We have in the past fallen into a trap of aiming for 100% in each step *before* we move onto the next one. That means we're well past the point of getting a net benefit (think 80-20 rule) by the time we start moving on. These import problems have a viciously long tail : isn't it better to be making things a lot better *most* of the time? I acknowledge the psychological impact of 'if it doesn't work always its hard to remember' - but we're already well past the common working set of any one developer, and Martin isn't suggesting that imports be abandoned, just that closing the loop is *as* important as improving the import story. -Rob (*) By which I mean some command that generates a validator, signs it, does $whatever with it. -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-distributed-devel
