And to add, that build farms can be even more open, not to closed for one distribution:
http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service Provided by Novell, build infrastructure, just basic one. Can be used as collab place. Everybody could participate, everybody could prepare packages and share them there. And sometimes the output is taken to automated building infrastructure. This is something real. Providing process to contribute closed-source things is just wasting of time. Best regards, Milan Milan Jurik pÃÅ¡e v Ät 26. 06. 2008 v 10:38 +0200: > Hi, > > Shawn Walker pÃÅ¡e v út 24. 06. 2008 v 22:37 -0500: > > 2008/6/24 Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> That's mainly what I'm getting at; just put a much better way. > > >> > > >> It's perfectly fine, in my view, to require that the materials > > >> necessary to rebuild the package be provided (even if those materials > > >> are primarly binaries in some cases). > > >> > > >> There's no reason to require duplicated efforts to have packages in a > > >> repository. > > > > > > Ok. A suggestion. > > > For the longer run I think it is pertinent to evolve > > > tooling/infrastructure > > > for automated builds of package submissions possibly using the Test > > > Farm resources. Essentially the submission of a package triggers the > > > scheduling of a future build of the source recipe to verify correctness > > > with > > > a mechanism to get the results back to the contributor. Human > > > intervention > > > should not be necessary. > > > > Yes, an automated build facility would be great. I just wouldn't want > > to see us setup a contrib repository where the only way to get things > > into it was through the intervention of a build team member. Users > > should just be able to contribute a package and necessary materials > > and have it "show up" (perhaps after a quick manual approval by > > someone). > > > > It seems you are 10 years behind world. Welcome in world of automated > build farms, like http://buildd.debian.org/ > > Even we have possibility to have it automated, Moinak suggested a lot of > things, if I remember well and he and JDS community made huge work on > their CBE and spec (which I don't like but will still prefer against > hacky binary). > > Contrib binary is dangerous idea. You can't review what was really send > (easily). You are putting Opensolaris project under law and security > pressure. And closing one of the benefit of open source - collaboration. > Or make it hard, at least. > > Yes, it's hard to review source code, but it's much easier than in > binary case. > > What I don't understand it is that contributing to Debian (the best and > greatest community work on the world, yes, it is) requires some > policies. But Opensolaris is just "from corner to corner"... > > If somebody wants to have some own ips repository, without source code, > OK, he could share URL with us. Maybe some people will use it. > > Best regards, > > Milan > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
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