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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2016 13:13:49
Message-Id: b0df4cb5-1d31-eab4-76b7-8364c07ceb2d@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo by "Michał Górny"
1 On 12/03/2016 10:41 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 10:35:32 +0100
3 > Patrice Clement <monsieurp@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Friday 02 Dec 2016 14:10:27, Michał Górny wrote :
6 >>> Hi, everyone.
7 >>>
8 >>> I've heard multiple times about various tinderbox projects being
9 >>> started by individuals in Gentoo. In fact, so many different projects
10 >>> that I've forgotten who was working on most of them.
11 >>>
12 >>> I know that Toralf is doing tinderboxing for most of the stuff.
13 >>> What other projects do we have there? What is their status?
14 >>>
15 >>> Is there anything we could try to integrate with pull requests to get
16 >>> a better testing?
17 >>>
18 >>> --
19 >>> Best regards,
20 >>> Michał Górny
21 >>> <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
22 >>
23 >> Continuous integration is all the rage these days and tinderboxing is the
24 >> obvious way to go concerning Gentoo. AFAIK, Toralf is the only contributor
25 >> doing tinderboxing out of his own will. In reality, we should have a team of
26 >> devs looking after our own tinderboxes instead of relying on the community.
27 >>
28 >> I'm wondering if we could start a donation campain for this project and ask
29 >> people if they've got spare machines laying around. I know a lot of folks are
30 >> reading this mailing list so maybe asking on gentoo-dev first for a start would
31 >> be appropriate.
32 >
33 > Hardware is not the problem. Lack of software is.
34 >
35
36 Have you considered using openQA[1] like openSUSE[2] and Fedora[3] do
37 instead of reinventing the wheel?
38
39 [1] http://open.qa/
40 [2] https://openqa.opensuse.org/
41 [3] https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/
42
43 --
44 Regards,
45 Markos Chandras

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo james <garftd@×××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Tinderboxing efforts in Gentoo "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>