On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Nicolás Reynolds <fauno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > El 27/01/11 10:36, Thomas S Hatch dijo: > > I have mentioned this subject before on aur-general, but I wanted to open > a > > discussion about it in the broader community. > > > > I have spent a great deal of my career working with Red Hat Linux, as > have > > many in the professional Linux world, and there is one project that is > > amazingly useful for the Red Hat world, and that is Koji. > > > > You can take a look at the web interface for koji here: > > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/ > > > > Basically, koji acts as a continuous build server for the fedora > project's > > rpms. it has a number of benefits, one is that all of the building is > done > > in a controlled environment, so we have a %100 assurance that the > packages > > makedepends are correct, and and the packages are all built inside of > clean > > chroots. > > > > Koji also allows for very simple mass-rebuilds of packages, since all > anyone > > needs to do it increment the release number and koji can pick up the > change > > and build the package. > > > > I have been passively working on a similar project called quarters, but I > > must admit that my motivation is somewhat low not knowing if the project > is > > in demand. So here is my question, do we think that something like this > > would be a benefit to Arch? Is this the type of project that should merit > my > > attention? > > > > Also, if we do think that this would be a good thing to have for Arch, I > > would like feedback on what types of features the system would have and > how > > it would behave. Right now I am following the idea of supporting a > > distributed build system so that we can have any number of build servers > in > > the fray working away to produce Arch packages for us. I am also > attempting > > to build it in such a way that a database is not required and that the > > interface would be amazingly simple (this is Arch after all). This would > > mean that by mearly checking into svn a package would be built, and then > an > > interface would pop up for the right people to sign it off, and once it > has > > been signed off it would move over. > > > > Or at least that is the basic idea I am running on. The code has not come > > very far, but if the Arch community and developers think that this is a > good > > idea then please let me know, my motivation should soar and I will make > Arch > > a super continuous package build system! > > > > -Thomas S Hatch > > -TU > > > > Hi, is there any progress on this? :) > > -- > Salud! > Nicolás Reynolds, > xmpp:fauno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > omb:http://identi.ca/fauno > blog:http://selfdandi.com.ar/ > gnu/linux user #455044 > > OTR: C0CB1F0F 01DB5E18 2D634C2A A4626858 E7C7C3A2 > > http://parabolagnulinux.org > http://endefensadelsl.org > Yes, there sure is, there is a lot of backend code that I am working on, but this is coming along! I am still as much as a few months out from having it production ready, and I am a few weeks away from initial functionality testing. here is the github repo: https://github.com/thatch45/Quarters
