On 26 February 2013 14:13, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/26/13 2:01 PM, janI wrote: > > Hi. > > > > Just a quick question for my understanding. can you use the SNAPSHOT tag > on > > a different revision level in a branch than in trunk ? > > you define exactly the revision you want to use on trunk or a branch. I > see there no difference. > Yes, but you define the SNAPSHOT tag to a specific revision independent of trunk or branch. In other words the SNAPSHOT tag cannot have revision x in trunk and y in a branch. > > > > > I thought any tag was "global", and if that is correct we might want to > > have another tag, so we dont mix branches/trunk. > > The idea is mainly to use the existing infra structure to build the > SNAPSHOT tag easily on demand. > > > > > I am planning to do something similar for the l10n branch, where I expect > > the po file generation to be available next week. > > I am not sure if I understand what you mean. > > My understanding is that we have limited resources on the build bots and > that we should manage carefully what we want build regularly. > I am sure you know that aoo-w7ia2 (windows) is already being build every day. L10n is also being build regulary. > I would love to see a flexible mechanism where we can start on demand a > build on revision xy from trunk or any branch and can download the > results. It would help people to verify bigger changes on all platforms > without setting up all environments again. Some prefer to work on > Windows, others prefer Linux or Mac or BSD. > Me too, but that is not what I meant...the current snap build uses trunk, and would need to be changed to use ia2, or alternatively we simply use the build already in place. > > Juergen > > > > > > rgds > > jan I. > > > > On 26 February 2013 13:48, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> before I go on vacation for 1 week I would like to propose that we use > >> the SNAPSHOT tag to build the "sidebar" branch more regular in the next > >> weeks and provide the builds fro interested people to focus on early QA > >> etc. > >> > >> The plan should be also to rebase the branch to trunk to benefit from > >> the other changes we have made. For example the renaming and to test > >> these changes as well. > >> > >> I know we still have no Mac build bot in place but we will provide in > >> MacOS builds based on the SNAPSHOT tag on a regular schedule. > >> > >> Juergen > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >
