On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 14:53 -0400, Christian Schaller wrote: > > > I'm confident the legal issues can be worked out. However, we > > definitely need to be concerned with security and repeatably as well; > > we don't want to make binaries built on a developer's personal laptop > > be our main downloadable. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "full > > Windows and MacOS X harness". > > My point was that we are not going into the business of making Mac and Windows > software on a large scale, so demanding the same process and that we have the > kind of facilities we have for building Fedora and Linux software is a > crazy overkill. It goes into the old joke that when you ask an engineer to solve > a problem instead of spending 5 minutes solving it he/she spends 5 Months creating > a framework for solving problems like it, and that is what I am warning against here. > We need to focus on solving our challenges efficiently and choose solutions that are > proportional to the scope of the problem, not rat holing ourselves. > > So while it of course would be wonderful to have a full fledged Windows and Mac harness > that matches what we have for building Fedora, considering the size of the problem I think > having something a lot simpler would be more appropriate to the size of the challenge we > are having here. So a shared office Mac or shared office Windows system might be enough. Of course, if we were building FMW as a cross-distro project with all the other distros who need something exactly like it, we could be sharing all that work and taking advantage of other people's expertise in those areas... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
