[maemo-developers] Repositories mess: conclusions and actions

[From: Laurent GUERBY]

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 13:52 +0100, Neil Jerram wrote:
> Quim Gil <quim.gil at nokia.com> writes:
> 
> > This is an invitation to resume all previous discussions about "the
> > repository mess" and come up with conclusions and actions. Please read
> > this through and have a say, specially if you are maintaining a
> > repository with maemo packages out of maemo.org
> 
> This all sounds very positive to me.  The only thing I'd add is that
> Nokia/Maemo should consider providing a auto-builder service for Maemo
> packages, such that
> 
> - developers could upload source code packages
> 
> - the autobuilder would attempt to build them, for all supported
>   platforms (gregale, bora and chinook)
> 
> - if everything built successfully, the auto-builder would
>   automatically submit through to the extras-testing repository
> 
> - if there were problems, the auto-builder would email those back to
>   the developer.

Hi, I'm an admin of the GCC Compile Farm (3 bi-dual opteron running
debian etch amd64):

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm

I'd be pleased to create ssh accounts for known maemo contributors on
the farm (for free software development only), especially if someone
contributes an auto-builder or patch tester (as someone did for GCC).
You can send emails and set crontab on the farm machines, as long as
bandwitdh
usage stays low (no web server / exports).

Then may be someone Nokia can get an account to and copy (scp/rsync)
built packages meeting their validation criteria to extra (all
at the hand of Nokia people).

This would provide a common standard building environment and a path
to maemo repository without Nokia having the need to open and
administrate a build farm and ssh account for non employees.
(I can also provide a web server in another data center but that's not
the point here :).

Let me know if this is of interest for the maemo community.

Laurent

PS: if you're a free software developper and like to play
with various GCC versions on your software you can also get an account,
instructions are given on the web page referenced above.