On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 10:52 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2013 19:44:21 -0700 > "T.C. Hollingsworth" <tchollingsworth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:02:17 -0400 > > > Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> >> 11) automatic period rebuilds in rawhide to highlight FTBFS > > >> >> issues aren't done as often anymore > > >> > Can you expand on this? Not sure what you mean? > > >> > > >> What Matt Domsch was doing for > > >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fails_to_build_from_source > > > > > > Ah, sure, yeah. FTBFS runs would be a great little project. > > > > We've done a mass rebuild for GCC updates or other things pretty much > > every release for the last several releases anyway, and these have > > caught lots of FTBFS issues. Is there really any reason to do this > > specifically for FTBFS? > > Well, if we wanted to run them more often than once every 6 months. > Also, we have in the past not done mass rebuilds for some releases > (where there is no change that needs one), which could mean a year or > more between runs. I think we sorta decided when Matt stopped doing the FTBFS runs that we'd at least do one mass rebuild for each release, just to keep things up to date and catch FTBFSes. I might be remembering wrong, though. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
