[maemo-developers] extras: autobuilders

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Nov 10, 2007 12:05 AM, Neil Jerram <neil at ossau.uklinux.net> wrote:
>
> Simon Pickering <S.G.Pickering at bath.ac.uk> writes:
> >
> > What about the myriad libraries that will be added to build all the
> > random apps we want? Would each of these need a Garage page or could
> > they all be grouped under the same page? I imagine most of these will
> > be simple modifications (if they even need that) of existing debian
> > packages and therefore a Garage project is probably overkill, a
> > maintainer's email address ought to be enough.
>
> Good point.  I take back my statement for now, then.  (I quite liked
> the idea of the auto-builder reporting build problems through a garage
> bug tracker, though.)

I think it's still got merit, though. It wouldn't be much harder to
provide a URI field for reporting bugs for a package (possibly even in
the control file so it could be used on a device post-install); that
URI could be a mailto:, a Garage bug tracker or even a random Bugzilla
reference.

The auto-builder can then support any number of different bug trackers
and report to the appropriate one.

Cheers,

Andrew

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