On 26-11-2018 08:27:41 +0000, M. J. Everitt wrote: > On 26/11/18 08:11, Fabian Groffen wrote [as excerpted]: > > Hi Sam, > > > > On 26-11-2018 15:02:26 +1100, Sam Pfeiffer wrote: > >> With Azure announcing unlimited minutes on CI/CD for open source projects: > >> > >> [4]https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-pipelines-with-unlimited-ci-cd-minutes-for-open-source/ > >> > >> Even bootstrapping Gentoo prefix, with pieces of software like gcc taking > >> very > >> long to compile, is possible. > > I'm still missing the infra to administer this, but I have a wrapper > > script to bootstrap-prefix.sh (I'm sure others (haubi?) have too) to do > > an unattended bootstrap. I want this to run automatically on some boxes > > I have, but some of them will take several days to complete. > > Another thing is for a bootstrapped prefix to periodically emerge --sync > > and emerge -Dua world. Add on top of that detecting which packages have > > keywords for said prefix and installing them, and we should be able to > > be notice breakage rather sooner than later. > > > From what I have observed, breakage seems to be undesirably frequent, and > there are regularly users in #gentoo-prefix on IRC complaining that > bootstrap-prefix.sh fails. > > I'm sure that if native Gentoo hardware isn't available, it should be > possible to approach OSL or other providers (I, myself, am using > IntegriCloud for powerpc development) to sponsor a host, and/or put > together a funding bid to the Trustees (there is capital available). > > TL;DR I don't think "ENOINFRA" is a particularly good excuse in this > day-and-age of cloud-based solutions.
Sorry. with Infra, I didn't mean the team or the hardware, I meant the scripting/software to keep track of the builds and visualise their results. I can fire off a bootstrap right now, but there is nothing picking up on their results. > Let us help you, and perhaps we can get the very popular Gentoo Prefix onto > a slightly firmer footing! :) At this point I think he project at the very least needs a lot of helping hands. I totally agree, automation is the way forward, but it always will need caretakers. Thanks, Fabian -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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