On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Bernhard Fröhlich <de...@bluelife.at>wrote:
> > Am 25.01.2014 02:12 schrieb "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.fried...@gmail.com>: > > > > > > > > > I think you've got me wrong - I am following freebsd-virtualization > list > > > very closely, and the matter I've touched here is not my doubt on which > > > technology I should use, but rather a complaint on the state of jails > > > related tools directly leading to the delays in handling of ports > related > > > PR's. I know the technology alternatives, I am decided to jails for a > > > reason, and I also know your work on the web interface focusing on > bhyve, > > > but its not about it. > > > > > > > My point is writing scripts for VM's is easier (nothing more then copy > the > > master and then do a normal make install/portmaster on the port of you > > choice [better to run them one at a time I have found). When I get into > > port testing I usually have 3 VM's on the host working on compiling and 1 > > for development. I have yet to find a good way to have 4 jails running > as > > independentlu. > > This thread has taken a different direction at some point so I want to > throw in another view. > > We already have all that build testing stuff around for various FreeBSD > versions with enough hardware resources and production ready and free for > all. It's called redports.org and I have even already created scripts > that monitor the gnats database for ports PRs with patches, fetch them, > apply them to the redports repository and schedule jobs for it. > > So it is all there and the reason why it isn't running already are > political ones because I also proposed to automatically send followup mails > to the PR with the buildlog status. > > http://code.google.com/p/redports/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2Fscripts > That sounds great! It would be awesome to introduce both solutions (automated testing and screening roles with new volunteers - we already have two of those) to improve the process. However, I hate when I hear 'politics' in open source projects. Could you be more specific and name the problem, if you mentioned it? B. _______________________________________________ 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"
