[maemo-developers] extras: autobuilders

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Nov 12, 2007 11:01 AM, Simon Pickering <S.G.Pickering at bath.ac.uk> wrote:
>
[big snip]
>
> [...] Then we possibly come back to individuals adding some sort of
> build recipe for each library they want (even though lots of them will
> be trivial).
>
> Although having an email address of the person who 'ported' them would
> allow error reporting, perhaps a better option here is to setup a
> centralised mailing list specifically for these autobuilt packages and
> let people submit their bug reports to that - this means that such
> reports are out in the open (as is the source and the build recipes)
> and would allow more than one person to contribute to any given package
> (e.g. if someone is on holiday, or gets bored, etc.)

Lots of good discussion, and it's validating the approach currently
taken by mud-builder where this kind of thing is done as above. There
are trivial recipes for compiling simple upstream libraries, the
maintainer is set to a mailing list unless overridden etc.

Perhaps it is just process defintiion and automation which unsuitable?
I'd desperately love to hear opinions from anyone involved in other
auto-builders, particularly in the Debian/Ubuntu world. But... then...
I suppose we would generally for this thread.

Cheers,

Andrew

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