On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:00:38 +0200, Lars Engels <lars.eng...@0x20.net> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 10:51:01PM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> On 09/07/2010 22:00, Shaun Amott wrote: >> > >> > I'm not sure how many non-committers were aware of / given access to >> > tb3 >> > and tb4 when they were around, but if tinderbox were used as a matter >> > of >> > course, it would, I believe go some way to speeding things up. >> > >> >> So if I set up a private tinderbox and provide amd64 and i386 >> 6-/7-/8-stable logs with every PR I submit it would hasten the >> processing of my PRs? > > The more complex a port is and the more dependencies it has the more > work a committer has to check if the PR is error-free. > Having TB-Logs would prove that the port builds fine, and the PR is more > likely to be taken.
Exactly for this reason beat@ has created a Tinderbox Virtual Machine for virtualbox. So port maintainers can test their updates in a tinderbox and discover problems earlier without the need of a dedicated tinderbox machine and all the setup woes. http://vboxtindi.chruetertee.ch/ -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"