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On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:16 PM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Sam Bishop <sam <at> cygnus.email> writes: |
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>> In my mind. Gentoo has the kind of hook you speak of. We just havent |
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>> refined it or done a good job showing it off to the world. |
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>> The ebuild format is one of the most powerful packaging standards. |
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>> An automatic test battery for Gentoo could possibly catapult Prefix |
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>> and similar sub projects forward to much greater adoption, and help |
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>> Gentoo reap secondary benefits as a result. |
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>> Now all the replying is done, here's the big question, where to organise |
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>> the bigger picture things? This mailing list? IRC? A new mailing list? |
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>> I want to get involved in this because I'm going to be building some |
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>> parts of this already. Why wouldn't I want to give back and help make |
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>> Gentoo better. |
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> Organization is great, but, practical tools are the first step,imho. In |
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> order to make this not only useful for Gentoo, but other coders, We need a |
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> liveUSB, where folks can download "Gentoo Fever" onto a usb stick and stick |
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> into their current hardware and boot up a killer code development system. |
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Building a liveUSB version of Gentoo is almost completely orthagonal |
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to building an automatic ebuild testing system. |
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A Gentoo CI system doesn't even have to be hosted on Gentoo, or on |
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Linux for that matter. Of course, if one were ever to become official |
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it most likely would be hosted on Gentoo, but most likely not on a box |
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booted from a USB. |
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I'm not saying that a liveUSB version of Gentoo wouldn't be nice to |
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have. It just has nothing to do with solving this particular problem. |
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Sure, you need an OS to host a CI solution just like you need hardware |
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to host a CI solution on, and I wouldn't focus on the OS for the same |
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reason that I wouldn't focus on the hardware. You might very well |
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want to run the CI solution on a cluster, but inventing a new |
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clustering solution is also orthagonal to building a CI solution. By |
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all means work on those projects if you want to, but I wouldn't do it |
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in the context of building a CI solution. |
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Rich |
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