Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Disabling auto-bumping of active Python version
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:09:23
Message-Id: 264a3b425bde144aa521781a3bed1be2@webmail.jolexa.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Disabling auto-bumping of active Python version by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:58:20 +0100, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
2 > On 12/1/10 9:34 PM, Joshua Saddler wrote:
3 >> Catalyst sends automated emails to releng@g.o from the
4 >> various build boxes: dolphin, poseidon, other dev.g.o machines.
5 >
6 > So we have some automatic reporting. Can we have a webpage for that,
7 > or
8 > a mailing list that people can subscribe to?
9
10 Before anyone creates a duplicate bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/329165 ;)
11 -Jeremy
12
13 > Idea: make python team receive those emails. ;-)
14 >
15 >>> I am curious how often stage builds fail (how long can they be
16 >>> broken until we actually care?)
17 >>
18 >> Fairly often, especially in the last couple of months or so. There
19 >> were some arches that, last I checked, hadn't had
20 >> any new media in several months.
21 >
22 > Do we have some bugs or other actions towards fixing those problems?
23 >
24 >> I see messages like this pretty much every day. Releng is
25 >> understaffed on a few arches, which is why no one has time to track
26 >> down the errors, fix them, and get the builds completed.
27 >
28 > Is it possible to bisect the portage tree and identify a breaking
29 > commit?
30 >
31 > By the way, it would be great to have some kind of continuous
32 > integration for the portage tree, even something very basic, and
33 > visible
34 > to the public.