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On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 6:16 PM Sam James <sam@g.o> wrote: |
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> > On 7 Nov 2022, at 06:07, Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 11:37:24 +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote: |
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> >> I would be in favour of stepping up the social contract and actually |
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> >> prohibiting this kind of things, we had that before too, the nattka you |
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> >> mgorny wrote is replacement for old bugzilla bot that was ... |
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> >> closedsource and perished, though nattka now have way more features than |
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> >> the old thing ever had. |
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> > As a user, I think it would be really cool if there was a requirement |
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> > that all infra and infra-adjacent stuff was free software. |
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> > I feel like I've read that Debian already has something like this. While |
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> > doing some quick searches I didn't find a full-on requirement, but all |
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> > their infra bits I did find were powered by free software. The most |
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> > relevant ones being buildd [1] and debci [2]. Additionally, the debci |
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> > docs has inctructions on reproducing tests yourself [3] which is a nice |
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> > extra IMO. |
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> Gentoo has https://www.gentoo.org/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.html. |
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I feel like something like a dev-run tinderbox is a bit out of the |
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scope of that. |
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Suppose I file a bug against a package, pointing out some issue in it. |
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How do you know I didn't use some proprietary static code analysis |
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tool to discover that error? Does it even really matter? The bug |
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speaks for itself. It is like worrying about whether somebody who |
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filed a bug was running Windows or another proprietary OS or browser |
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on their desktop. |
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Well, a tinderbox is just an automated process for doing just that. |
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We don't require any dev to use a proprietary tinderbox before |
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committing. It is something that individual devs choose to use for |
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themselves, automating the testing workflow and possibly the |
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submission of bugs. |
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I think the key is something that was brought up earlier in the |
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thread: is this causing problems? If somebody is running some tool |
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against the repository and automatically filing bugs, and those bugs |
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are not useful/actionable and waste the time of volunteers, then that |
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is a problem. Proprietary tools do contribute to this since they can |
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generate results that are harder to reproduce, but if they are clear |
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and accurate and actionable it could still be a net-positive. |
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Of course if somebody wants to contribute to 100% FOSS tinderbox |
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efforts that would be even better. Perhaps if our 100% FOSS tinderbox |
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efforts addressed our needs very well, then nobody would want to |
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bother with the proprietary reports, or generating them. IMO it would |
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be better to create the FOSS solution before abandoning the |
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proprietary one. Doing otherwise is basically burning bridges - it |
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can be motivating in a sense but not really ideal. I'd love to have a |
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100% FOSS solution around all of this, but I appreciate what has been |
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created and can hardly criticize volunteers for failing to make it |
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happen, especially since I haven't contributed to that myself. |
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Rich |
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