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From: Lance Albertson <ramereth@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP concerning ebuild-development
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 23:58:58
Message-Id: 1110758338.9795.6.camel@pursuit
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP concerning ebuild-development by Martin Schlemmer
1 On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 00:08 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
2 > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 15:31 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote:
3 > > On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 21:17 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 22:05:09 +0100 Maurice van der Pot
5 > > > <griffon26@g.o> wrote:
6 > > > | For instance, checking (for all arches, for all use flag combos) if
7 > > > | the dependencies are as stable or more stable (x86 > ~x86 > hard
8 > > > | masked) than the thing depending on it.
9 > > >
10 > > > Hasn't repoman been doing this correctly for a year or more now? I know
11 > > > it wasn't the case when I joined, but bug 24160 is long fixed...
12 > >
13 > > What if we had a service that did this check plus other stuff repoman
14 > > doesn't count and report it to some web site that developers can look at
15 > > daily to see QA bugs? Maybe run it daily or every 6-12 hours? I think
16 > > someone mentioned something like that once.
17 > >
18 >
19 > I think it would be worth a lot more if it was mailed to the maintainer
20 > of the ebuild (and perhaps QA?), as it takes time and effort to wade
21 > through a list (like the been in ~ for x days list that we used to get).
22
23 How about both options? Some people prefer getting email reports, others
24 prefer just going to a website. I don't see how this could be a problem,
25 so why not offer both? :) Perhaps we should ask the author to rewrite
26 his proposed GLEP to be more of a QA monitoring system that devs could
27 use.
28
29 Just my random thoughts...
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP concerning ebuild-development Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>