On Wednesday 09 August 2006 8:12 am, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Wednesday 09 August 2006 08:40, Rahul wrote: > > We dont need to provide them hardware. We need to connect the existing > > hardware to the buildsystems and do the regular builds, testing etc. > > This will be a huge barrier for fostering lower tier arches. Some of the > hardware they get will not be suitable for placement in the colo. We > shouldn't hamstring them by forcing their resources to be within Fedora's > grasp. We have to trust them to use their own hardware in their own > infrastructure to get the project off the ground. Having Done the whole building extras for another arch thing. Ill put my 2c in I have and have access to enough hardware to build extras. currently i do it by running a daily cron job that rsyncs the extras tree and queues all the packages. Ones that fail to build I need to manually look at and either fix or ignore. Some packages build but dont run. Currently i cant test everything. I test what i use but rely on the Aurora community to file bugs. I have in aurora's bugzilla extras components but have never yet had a bug report filed. When i started I posted to some of the fedora lists stating what i was doing and checking out if i could use Red hats bugzilla and have any sparc bug cced to me. which is a level of granularity that bugzilla does not offer I have a perl script i wrote that is on my website that parses the output of decribecomponents.cgi and inserts into my db the new ones. its kinda crude but available under the GPL. I guess perhaps i should post how i have everything setup so that other arches have a guide to follow. i have had quite a bit of feedback in irc and email. and if people ask for packages i direct them to get them in Fedora extras. I have not had any package requests that are SPARC specific. Some packages in extras have aurora specific conditionals. most bugs i have filed have been well received every so often I get a maintainer who says we done support sparc so im not fixing. Even though i generally have a fix. I get the same thing with core packages also. Most maintainers are good a few just wont touch it. I personally try to get everyfix i make applied upstream (fedora core/extras) as i feel they should live there. or be futher passed to the individual projects. As far as infrastructure goes. I think we have what we need to put out a good product. Some of what we have is rack mountable but not all of it is. I use a similar setup to extras. so if at some point we merge things in it shouldn't be to hard a too much of a change. -- Dennis Gilmore, RHCE Proud Australian _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
