On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:00:21AM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> a) is it preferred that we release 3.1.4 or that we release 3.1.5, or a 
> third option, roll a 3.1.6 tarball using the same environment where 
> 3.1.2 was bootstrapped?

3.1.2 had a bootstrapping problem which resulted on it failing to build
by default on multilib amd64/i386 systems if both the 32bit and 64bit
versions of the dependencies (libapr, confuse) were installed.

3.1.4 used the same bootstrapping than 3.1.1 and so was IMHO better, but
because there were multiple 3.1.4 packages is probably difficult to know
which one was validated, and that was AFAIK one of the reasons why it
wasn't eventually released.

> b) should the choice of bootstrap environment be locked for all 3.1.X, 
> and only changed when increasing the minor version number (e.g. when we 
> go from 3.1 to 3.2)?

no, but since our build systems is full of hacks and not completely reliable
it might be a good idea to test no issues are introduced when looking at
a new version.

> c) what environment should be used to bootstrap 3.2.X/trunk?

the same than 3.1 so that all improvements in the build system will be
tested there and then backported for stability.

> d) Can anyone volunteer to provide a stable bootstrap environment (e.g. 
> a virtual server) just for Ganglia?  Two such environments may be 
> needed, one for trunk and one for the current release branch.

Matt did offer an EC2 instance if we could agree on an OS version :

  
http://www.mail-archive.com/ganglia-developers@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05271.html

I suggested Debian 5.0 (more conservative) or Fedora 12 (to be updated more
frequently) but as far as it is agreed, documented and reproducible anything
should work.

Carlo

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