Re: Package test service for GNU maintainers

2014-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
John Darrington j...@darrington.wattle.id.au skribis: I could give it a go. Cool! 2. By default, guix does not check that out-of-source builds are functional. make distcheck on the other-hand does. Do we want to duplicate the function of make distcheck? Perhaps we do, since I have

Re: Package test service for GNU maintainers

2014-08-20 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Jason Self ja...@bluehome.net skribis: Since GNU maintainers (in theory) already upload their stuff to ftp.gnu.org or alpha.gnu.org using that file triplet it might be nice if something could be worked into their existing workflow. Perhaps new commands in the directive file to do the things

Re: Package test service for GNU maintainers

2014-08-19 Thread John Darrington
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 04:53:52PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote: Hello! As a part of a discussion about ???cool features for GNU maintainers??? at the GHM, someone (Andreas, IIRC) suggested having a service (possibly a Web service) that would allow maintainers to upload

Re: Package test service for GNU maintainers

2014-08-19 Thread Jason Self
John Darrington asked: The way you describe it above, would it not be considered SaaS? No, assuming it's running on FSF/GNU equipment: Then the GNU Project is doing its own computing on its own machines. This is one reason I liked the idea of somehow integrating this into the existing FTP upload

Re: Package test service for GNU maintainers

2014-08-18 Thread Jason Self
Since GNU maintainers (in theory) already upload their stuff to ftp.gnu.org or alpha.gnu.org using that file triplet it might be nice if something could be worked into their existing workflow. Perhaps new commands in the directive file to do the things you describe? This would probably require