Hi Mattia, Jonathan! I realized that I replied on Mattia's previous email off-list, so let me restore the context.
> I believe that you might be confused about the scope of a "guest > account". You are right. I noticed that late night reading another member's DC+ application back in April. > That's just > not the way porterbox are used: they are there for only test builds, > debugging architecture-specific failures or other similar situations. I think the clarification of statuses, eligibility criteria and expected use-cases should be highlighted on the "Request a guest account" and similar webpages of nm/Site Wizard. Something like: "You should request a guest account only if you want to get one-time access to Debian build machine (porterbox) to debug a failed build or architecture-specific bug..." would instantly clarify the questions otherwise shed in the mailing list yet raised again and again. > Unfortunately we do not have such infrastracture in place to allow > contributors to build all their packages targetting something outside of > the archive, in a OBS-like fashion. This should be also highlighted at least in Developer / New maintainer FAQ. Immediately after Mattia's response I was thinking on using OBS or Ubuntu Launchpad, but Jonathan's reply: > Vasyl seems to be preparing beta packages of Kodi 19.0; this seems like > an appropriate use of experimental (until 19 is properly released) and > possibly backports (for backports to buster). That'll get the > autobuilding and the distribution covered and would just need a Debian > Maintainer account that the multimedia team could then give upload > access to for the appropriate packages? persuaded me that I should probably go the "experimental" path. Should I close the DC+ application now? What are my next steps apart from fixing the packages and uploading them to experimental? > Biased observer who runs Debian packaged Kodi Welcome to the testers club! :) I have been running Kodi 19.0 since beginning of April on buster/amd64 and things are pretty stable. If you are interested, please join the discussion in debian-multimedia mailing list. Cheers, -- Vasyl Gello
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