[maemo-community] Maemo / Nokia might want to take advantage of debian's potential new build system

[From: Ian]

Hi
>> No prejudice there. :) And Luk Claes, the mentor of the SoC project,
>> knows his stuff, so be prepared to be blown away.
>
> Yeah, that came across harsher than I meant - sorry.
>
> <aside>
> I would love for more opensource people to put a bit more effort into "us"
> rather than "me" though. I'm sure he could produce something that would blow me
> away - but I'd far rather see someone contribute to a team effort.
> And I know how much easier it is to design and implement a green-field solution.
> </aside>

>From debian-dev:

* Debian Autobuilding Infrastructure Rewrite *
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Student: Philipp Kern, Mentor: Luk Claes

   Rewrite the software that currently runs the Debian autobuilding
infrastructure in a way that makes it more maintainable and robust. It
will use Python as its programming language and PostgreSQL for the
database backend. By harmonizing buildds, many build failures can be
prevented and wasteful workload on buildd volunteers can be reduced.

As both the student and the mentor are Debian Developers it is IMO a
good probability that something nice will come from this.

Ian

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