Re: [gentoo-dev] Disturbing state of arch testing in Gentoo

[John Helmert III]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 08:26:15AM +0200, Joonas Niilola wrote:
> On 7.11.2022 8.07, Oskari Pirhonen wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 11:37:24 +0100, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
> >> I would be in favour of stepping up the social contract and actually
> >> prohibiting this kind of things, we had that before too, the nattka you
> >> mgorny wrote is replacement for old bugzilla bot that was ...
> >> closedsource and perished, though nattka now have way more features than
> >> the old thing ever had.
> >
> > As a user, I think it would be really cool if there was a requirement
> > that all infra and infra-adjacent stuff was free software.
> >
> > I feel like I've read that Debian already has something like this. While
> > doing some quick searches I didn't find a full-on requirement, but all
> > their infra bits I did find were powered by free software. The most
> > relevant ones being buildd [1] and debci [2]. Additionally, the debci
> > docs has inctructions on reproducing tests yourself [3] which is a nice
> > extra IMO.
> >
> > [1] https://buildd.debian.org
> > [2] https://ci.debian.net
> > [3] https://ci.debian.net/doc/file.MAINTAINERS.html
> >
> > - Oskari
>
> I _believe_ ago's tinderbox isn't being paid by the GF _anymore_ due to
> this reason, but he keeps it running with his own expenses. I don't mind
> this as long as the results are desirable and not phony. I still see a
> lot of value in most of ago's work.

He's not using infra's AWS resources anymore, but he's still using the
devbox.amd64.dev.gentoo.org VM.

> It is unfortunate we don't get to see the engine behind and copy it,
> since I'd be really interested in using his automated bug search /
> report tool. Even tattoo (https://github.com/arthurzam/tattoo) lacks
> that at the moment.
>
> -- juippis