On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 07:03:31PM +0000, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) wrote: > A truly exemplary individual effort for all sprinters, > for how great work well precedes the sprint itself, > allowing Paul to make the most of this coding event.
It might be of interest that the bug which kept Paul busy for 70% of his time was spotted by me 6 weeks before the sprint [1] and analyzed by me [2] during the sprint. And I also provided a fix during the sprint [3]. This is not to say that Paul work wasn't needed (he did a great work modernizing the module inizialization code and backporting the fix in all branches) but is just to stress out that it doesn't take being in the same room at the same time to move a project forward. Donating some fun to core developers is surely appreciated (hint: you can pay me a movie theater via bitcoin or paypal) but I think reliable infrastructure to improve open collaboration is still the best investiment for a software foundation. For example, we lost the OSGeo BuildBot instance long time ago and I'm still missing it [4]. The OSGeo BuildBot infrastructure allowed any user or packager of every OSGeo project to plug a machine to the system in order to ensure compatibility of the software with that specific machine. At the moment, as more and more projects move to the proprietary-backed "github" infrastructure, most testing reduced to a specific version of an "ubuntu" system, with some custom-crafted solutions in each project (Jenkins for PostGIS, Dash for QGIS, ...). Maybe we should get all build bots togheter in a room somewhere on the planet and fill them with beer. It might work :P [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/3429 [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/3429#comment:26 [3] https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/3429#comment:29 [4] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1214 --strk; _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
