Shawn Walker wrote:
> 2008/6/26 Milan Jurik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Shawn Walker píše 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/
> 
> I'm well aware of automated build systems having setup some of them
> myself. I just don't believe them to be a panacea.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Sorry but that's not a reasonable excuse to deny binary packages. They
> are sometimes necessary.
> 
We may then think of a set up, which will put binary packages to some 
separate repository or clearly mark the binary packages, so everyone 
will understand that they are different from the ones with sources 
included.  In general it seems to me the best idea is to start with 
packages, which have source available and add ability to contribute 
binary packages only later (based on demand and experience).

Regards,
Lukas
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