On Saturday 31 January 2009 22:17:15 John5342 wrote: > 2009/1/31 Eli Wapniarski <eli at orbsky.homelinux.org> > > > I was thinking the same thing myself. But, I only have resources to be > > able to > > test things on Fedora version I currently have installed on my computer. > > And > > This is not such an issue as mock can build packages for multiple versions > of Fedora on the same machine. Thats what i do quite successfully. As for > other architectures koji can build on all the available versions and > architectures that Fedora supports. > > > even if I did have the resources to test on 5 different platforms plus 3 > > others in developemnt, > > Most of the rest of us dont have machines for all the versions and > platforms available. We test what we can and the rest we have to rely on > feedback. > > > I'm not really sure that I would have the time to reliably do the qa > > needed to ensure everything is working as development progresses. > > Time is indeed the biggest issue. The good news is most of the simpler > packages are quite easy to package once and then just occasionally do > fixes, updates or rebuilds to cope with incompatibilities/upstream updates. > Good thing with plasma applets are they are for the most part not required > by other parts of the system so failure in an applet should only affect the > applet itself. > OK... If somebody would point me to the documentation regarding what's involved, I will certainly look it over and consider it. Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
