Re: Updates to the UPG for UDD

2012-01-31 Thread Martin Pool
On 1 February 2012 10:18, Barry Warsaw ba...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi all, I have a merge proposal to update the UDD documentation part of the packaging guide.  I'm hoping this can be reviewed, merged, and published before my UDW session tomorrow (it's okay if it can't). That was great,

xz tar imports failing?

2012-01-31 Thread Martin Pool
I haven't dug into whether these are new, or whether there is already a bug for them, but they do seem to be new. I see https://bugs.launchpad.net/udd/+bug/553668 about supporting xz in bzr-builddeb: does that perhaps need to be deployed on Jubany? -- Forwarded message -- From:

Re: Improved quilt patch handling

2012-01-18 Thread Martin Pool
On 19 January 2012 11:30, Jelmer Vernooij jel...@samba.org wrote: bzr-builddeb 2.8.1 has just landed on Debian Sid and Ubuntu Precise. This version contains some of my improvements from late last year for the handling of quilt patches in packaging branches. That's great. I have taken the

Re: juju-izing udd

2011-12-21 Thread Martin Pool
I'm going to try writing a Juju charm for the udd importer. (time passes) Well, I did start, but I got bogged down in debugging why my lxc provider won't boot. Details and tiny patches on the juju list (which you should join.) If someone else wants to have a go, please do. Plan: * it runs on

Re: juju-izing udd

2011-12-21 Thread Martin Pool
... I was working in lp:~canonical-bazaar/charm/oneiric/udd/trunk -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list ubuntu-distributed-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-distributed-devel

Re: Moving udd to django

2011-12-13 Thread Martin Pool
I think switching from batch html, handcoded sql and ssh access to higher-level alternatives would be well worth while and Django seems like a good choice. +1 from me, and also on the specific incremental changes. I agree with James, and disagree with Vincent, about bringing these changes in to

Re: Using lp:udd beyond its original purpose

2011-12-13 Thread Martin Pool
There are two big changes that aren't necessary for us, but would help a lot:  1. Decouple lp:udd from the package-import.canonical.com production deployment  2. Split the package scanning and the branch importing parts of lp:udd into separate projects That sounds good to me, especially #1.

Re: Using lp:udd beyond its original purpose

2011-12-07 Thread Martin Pool
(re-send) On 8 December 2011 07:13, Martin Pool m...@sourcefrog.net wrote: There are two big changes that aren't necessary for us, but would help a lot:  1. Decouple lp:udd from the package-import.canonical.com production deployment  2. Split the package scanning and the branch importing

Re: UDD up-to-date

2011-11-27 Thread Martin Pool
The buildd update saga is still continuing. We're planning a new deployment this week which will improve translation functions, and then after that we will deploy a new launchpad-buildd which will fix http://pad.lv/891892, building of packages where -sa is needed to force the source tarball to be

Re: Fwd: Thanks for fixing recipes...and Launchpad Recipe help please

2011-11-17 Thread Martin Pool
On 18 November 2011 11:23, Scott Ritchie scottritc...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 11/15/2011 07:07 PM, Martin Pool wrote: And now that it's deployed I'm getting a different error: bzr: ERROR: deb-version not fully expanded: {latest-tag}+daily-2018. Valid substitutions are: ['{time}', '{date

Re: Fwd: Thanks for fixing recipes...and Launchpad Recipe help please

2011-11-17 Thread Martin Pool
This is producing this launchpad error when I try to change the recipe: Error parsing recipe:1:22: Unknown format: '0.4'. Another bug? :) i'm guessing that means it's not yet deployed rather than an actual bug. I will look in to it. -- Martin -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list

Re: Fwd: Thanks for fixing recipes...and Launchpad Recipe help please

2011-11-17 Thread Martin Pool
On 18 November 2011 14:16, Martin Pool m...@canonical.com wrote: This is producing this launchpad error when I try to change the recipe: Error parsing recipe:1:22: Unknown format: '0.4'. Another bug? :) i'm guessing that means it's not yet deployed rather than an actual bug.  I will look

Re: Fwd: Thanks for fixing recipes...and Launchpad Recipe help please

2011-11-15 Thread Martin Pool
I changed my recipe to use {latest-tag} instead of {debupstream} today, requested a rebuild, and got a new build failure: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/85208307/buildlog.txt.gz https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/890834 It seems to be a regression. Thanks for reporting this. It is

Re: UDD up-to-date

2011-11-10 Thread Martin Pool
One more recent improvement, thanks to Raphaël https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/827935, you can now look at https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches to see the recently changed official Ubuntu branches. -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list ubuntu-distributed-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Fwd: Thanks for fixing recipes...and Launchpad Recipe help please

2011-11-09 Thread Martin Pool
I don't know the answer to this off hand. Does someone else? Maybe we can add this to the help.l.n documentation? Martin -- Forwarded message -- From: Scott Ritchie scottritc...@ubuntu.com Date: 10 November 2011 06:05 Subject: Thanks for fixing recipes...and Launchpad

Re: Fwd: Thanks for fixing recipes...and Launchpad Recipe help please

2011-11-09 Thread Martin Pool
Is there a place where I can track this?  I'd like to know when it becomes available.  Thanks for the full answer :) That's a good question, and maybe something that's a bit missing in lp's communication at the moment. We will reply on this thread and also put something on the Launchpad blog

Re: UDD up-to-date

2011-11-08 Thread Martin Pool
We're in the middle of a fairly epic series of roll-outs to the Launchpad buildds. Done today, both on staging and production, is an update to bzr 2.4, which should let large trees be assembled in recipe builds without running out of memory. Coming up soon are upgrades to the buildd client

Re: UDD up-to-date

2011-10-03 Thread Martin Pool
On 27 September 2011 19:34, Martin Pool m...@canonical.com wrote: progress in recent weeks:  * John did great work to give much faster branching of large linear histories, like linaro-gcc: this is now 3x faster (down from 3h to 1h to branch to me in Australia; flatlined pipe would be about

UDD up-to-date

2011-09-27 Thread Martin Pool
progress in recent weeks: * John did great work to give much faster branching of large linear histories, like linaro-gcc: this is now 3x faster (down from 3h to 1h to branch to me in Australia; flatlined pipe would be about 15m so there's some room for more) * package importer is getting

ubuntu: branches lacking history with upstream branches

2011-09-22 Thread Martin Pool
pitti mentioned to me today the issue of ubuntu-namespace branches that ought to be related to an upstream bzr branch, but that actually aren't. lp:indicator-power is one example, and the desktop team actually maintain an unofficial packaging branch that does share history:

Re: Build service thoughts

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Pool
On 14 September 2011 00:42, Jonathan Riddell jridd...@ubuntu.com wrote: I packaged bzr for openSUSE recently and it was suggested I send some notes on how their build service compares to Launchpad. Thanks for writing that up. jml and I (at least) have looked at it before but there's nothing

Re: Collision branches

2011-09-07 Thread Martin Pool
On 8 September 2011 07:48, James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net wrote: Hi, Thanks for fixing the bugs that were preventing merge proposals for getting filed for collisions. This had led to a surge in the number of such merge proposals. This is mainly due to a backlog, but there have been

Re: Terminating the append_revisions_only experiment, for now

2011-08-23 Thread Martin Pool
On 23 August 2011 17:41, vila v.ladeuil...@free.fr wrote: Max Bowsher _...@maxb.eu writes:     We currently have 97 packages failing with AppendRevisionsOnlyViolation     - that's around a sixth of all failures.     I think we should roll back the change to the importer to set    

Re: critical: 806348 BzrCheckError

2011-07-21 Thread Martin Pool
On 22 July 2011 11:31, Max Bowsher _...@maxb.eu wrote: On 22/07/11 00:54, Martin Pool wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/806348 seems to be causing a steadily increasing number of package import failures - if you look at the failure count graph it is ramping steadily up to the right

Re: critical: 806348 BzrCheckError

2011-07-21 Thread Martin Pool
We're back on 2.3.4 on Jubany and the importer is at least running. So far it has not actually found any work to do. I'm going to see if I can get it to re-run some of these packages and see what effect that may have, and perhaps try to improve the reporting within the importer. --

Re: Please RT: apt-get install python-bzrlib.tests

2011-07-17 Thread Martin Pool
On 16 July 2011 23:05, John Arbash Meinel j...@arbash-meinel.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/16/2011 11:27 AM, Max Bowsher wrote: We've lost the ability to run ./selftest.py on jubany, because we've upgraded to a bzr packaging which splits bzrlib.tests out into

Re: Please file a RT for installation of python-debian on jubany

2011-07-15 Thread Martin Pool
It's done now. -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list ubuntu-distributed-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-distributed-devel

Re: RFC: Minor collisions handling, both manual and automatic

2011-07-13 Thread Martin Pool
That makes sense to me too. -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list ubuntu-distributed-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-distributed-devel

Re: jubany. lucid?

2011-07-13 Thread Martin Pool
I think we're now up and running again; if you see any continuing problems please let me know (and/or fix it ;-). m -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list ubuntu-distributed-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Ubuntu Packaging Guide

2011-06-05 Thread Martin Pool
On 4 June 2011 01:28, Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Barry Warsaw ba...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Jun 03, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: From what I understand, there are people doing things all sorts of ways with quilt, and I really don't

Re: UDD steering committee meeting minutes 2011-06-01

2011-06-01 Thread Martin Pool
Sorry I missed it, I had a personal interrupt last night. -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list ubuntu-distributed-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-distributed-devel

UDS branches plenary

2011-04-20 Thread Martin Pool
I think it would be great to have a plenary at UDS-O about what people are doing with Ubuntu branches. I have put a proposal in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-O. We have to make a plan for something to say in 15m that will be exciting, relevant, not waffly, and not a vastly-truncated tutorial.

Re: Meeting minutes and possible meeting time change

2011-04-11 Thread Martin Pool
Thanks, Barry, that's very neat. spiv mentioned the other day he found it a bit unclear at the moment what was on the bzr team's path towards udd was at the moment. In a nutshell, what we're going to do is get package-import.ubuntu.com failures down to 0, and work on bugs that are affecting

discussion of ubuntu-desktop packaging branches

2011-04-10 Thread Martin Pool
Robert pointed out https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2011-April/002940.html, about moving to 'normal mode' of bzr-builddeb, in which the entire tree is versioned. - It is possible to screw up the branches so that bzr merge-package throws a confusing error (I keep doing it).

Re: Summary from UDD meeting 2011-03-23

2011-03-31 Thread Martin Pool
Just to have a bit of closure on this: we're going to work on imports and other bugs (performance, warning about out-of-date branches) for a bit more, until either we feel the import failures are running dry, or until a Launchpad squad is free to do this. Martin -- ubuntu-distributed-devel

Re: missed meeting

2011-03-02 Thread Martin Pool
Sorry, I'm going to be about 15m late. - Martin On 03/03/2011 4:04 AM, Barry Warsaw ba...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Mar 02, 2011, at 06:02 PM, Martin Pool wrote: Those dates work well for me. (I'm going to be offline again on the 10th of March, but here this week and also the 17th.) I could have

Re: rfc: permissions on package branches

2011-03-01 Thread Martin Pool
On 18 February 2011 17:27, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Martin Pool m...@canonical.com wrote: On 18 February 2011 16:27, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: What about 3 - have no owner at all: there is a unique path for each

Re: rfc: permissions on package branches

2011-02-17 Thread Martin Pool
On 18 February 2011 12:07, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote: On Tuesday, February 15, 2011 12:34:28 am Martin Pool wrote: There are a few options here and we'd appreciate hearing from Ubuntu people how they think it should work: 0- No change: the nominal owner keeps write access

Re: Import layout of Quilt v3 packages

2011-02-08 Thread Martin Pool
On 8 February 2011 19:00, Max Bowsher m...@f2s.com wrote: On 08/02/11 07:00, Martin Pool wrote: At the moment it seems to me we need to either: import to looms and mandate using looms; or check in things with everything expanded and provide glue that will keep the quilt data up to date

Re: Making bzr commit more like debcommit

2011-01-24 Thread Martin Pool
On 25 January 2011 03:32, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: Should be easy enough to add a hook to get fixes from plugins; the tricky bit is allowing users to confirm that the detected things are correct (or perhaps thats overkill?) Anyhow the bzr-builddeb, commitfromnews,

Re: udd at uds-n

2010-11-30 Thread Martin Pool
On 1 December 2010 09:27, Barry Warsaw ba...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Martin, thanks for posting this update, and apologies for taking so long to get around to reading it. On Nov 17, 2010, at 08:06 PM, Martin Pool wrote: At the end of that discussion we picked two specific items for the bzr team

Fwd: Proposed bzr-builddeb SRU

2010-11-23 Thread Martin Pool
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bilal Akhtar bilalakh...@ubuntu.com Date: 24 November 2010 02:36 Subject: Proposed bzr-builddeb SRU To: ubuntu-distributed-devel@lists.ubuntu.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all!        Version 2.6ubuntu0.1 of package

Re: UDD survey results

2010-11-18 Thread Martin Pool
On 19 November 2010 06:34, Francis J. Lacoste francis.laco...@canonical.com wrote: On November 18, 2010, John Arbash Meinel wrote: Anyway, I don't know the net promoter stuff. I certainly don't see how you get 1-in-35 being -35. Doh, My mistake, you are right. I completely missed the 9

udd at uds-n

2010-11-17 Thread Martin Pool
Just a few brief notes about UDD discussions at UDS-N. A lot of this is captured to various degrees in gobby documents and IRC logs at http://ubottu.com/uds-logs/, but they're pretty long: http://ubottu.com/uds-logs/%23ubuntu-uds-bonaire2.log * There was a lot of interest in adopting something

UDD survey results

2010-11-17 Thread Martin Pool
TLDR? Mixed but generally positive feedback. Top issues to fix are speed of branching/merging from Launchpad; keeping import branches reliably up to date; getting branches where possible to current formats; removing various small-medium roadblocks; supporting v3 packages and being smarter about

Re: import failures

2010-02-15 Thread Martin Pool
On 13 February 2010 04:09, James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:49:22 +1100, Robert Collins robert.coll...@canonical.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 21:46 +, James Westby wrote: Some of them have been upgraded. If it's easier for me to do an info

Re: UDD as a product?

2010-02-11 Thread Martin Pool
On 11 February 2010 18:59, Ian Clatworthy ian.clatwor...@canonical.com wrote: UDD now has an active mailing list, a Launchpad project and a bug/task list. Does it make sense to begin thinking about UDD as a product? Would it be valuable to talk about UDD x.y vs x.z? Code wise, I guess the

Re: UDD @ Portland

2010-02-10 Thread Martin Pool
On 11 February 2010 13:18, Robert Collins robert.coll...@canonical.com wrote: James Westby and I had some time together in Portland to talk about UDD stuff. We talked about a few things: * Looms, their use today and where they should go * The operational issues with the package importer and

Re: hottest100

2010-02-04 Thread Martin Pool
On 3 February 2010 22:14, Reinhard Tartler siret...@ubuntu.com wrote: Your list includes this: mplayer   categorized package-bug:513282   categorized ok_upstream   lp:mplayer                                0    ok_upstream this cannot be true. mplayer makes heavy use of svn:externals

Re: hottest100 (was Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2)

2010-02-03 Thread Martin Pool
We had a big push on hottest100 last week, and it was good. A fairly recent copy of the hottest100 results are below. To summarize where we got to: most of the upstream branches are now working; there are a few not correctly registered but that could probably be fairly easily fixed. In package

Re: hottest100 (was Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2)

2010-01-26 Thread Martin Pool
We're hacking a bit more on this script (in http://code.launchpad.net/~canonical-bazaar/udd/hottest100) to make it do things including * check both the package and upstream branch for freshness and existence * cross check the package branch against Madison * understand some of the branches that

Re: hottest100 (was Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2)

2010-01-26 Thread Martin Pool
2010/1/26 Martin Pool m...@canonical.com: lp:accerciser - lp:~vcs-imports/accerciser/main lp:at-spi  - lp:~vcs-imports/at-spi/git-trunk lp:ekiga - lp:~vcs-imports/ekiga/git-trunk lp:gconf  - lp:~vcs-imports/gconf/trunk lp:glib - lp:~jjardon/glib/trunk all done lp:gnome-common - lp:~vcs

Re: Feedback on merging via bzr

2010-01-17 Thread Martin Pool
2010/1/18 Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com: I feel like I've gone through a process that is far more complex than the old one for no real benefit.  I have some recommendations for improving and simplifying this process.  I think simplification is an essential element because the learning

Re: hottest100 (was Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2)

2010-01-15 Thread Martin Pool
2010/1/16 Francis J. Lacoste francis.laco...@canonical.com: On January 15, 2010, Martin Pool wrote: In case people are wondering how far this has come. When we started focussing on the hottest100 a month ago we had about 90 of the hottest100 packages linked to products, and about 52 of them

Re: hottest100 (was Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2)

2010-01-14 Thread Martin Pool
In case people are wondering how far this has come. When we started focussing on the hottest100 a month ago we had about 90 of the hottest100 packages linked to products, and about 52 of them had working branches. Now we have 94 of them linked to products, which must be just about all that

Re: hottest100 (was Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2)

2010-01-14 Thread Martin Pool
2010/1/15 Andrew Bennetts andrew.benne...@canonical.com: Martin Pool wrote: [...] The definition of 'working' here may be a bit loose; I'm working on a script to scan them and report those which are stale.  This will also I suspect that most of the gnome ones are currently stale (hopefully

Re: hottest100 (was Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2)

2010-01-07 Thread Martin Pool
Here are some specific things people can do to help with hottest100: * work out how to make package-product links (explain that here :-) and create them when they're missing * update the branches pointing to obsolete imports (gnome etc) * write a script that checks the date of the last

Re: hottest100 (was Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2)

2010-01-07 Thread Martin Pool
2010/1/8 James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net: On Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:58:04 +1100, Martin Pool m...@canonical.com wrote: Here are some specific things people can do to help with hottest100:  * work out how to make package-product links (explain that here :-) and create them when they're

Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2

2010-01-04 Thread Martin Pool
2010/1/5 Ian Clatworthy ian.clatwor...@canonical.com: Martin Pool wrote: I think after the break we should focus on the vcs-imports of the top 100 Ubuntu packages until they're all working well.  jml and spm helped with some scripts to query their current state, and we can map

hottest100 (was Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2)

2010-01-04 Thread Martin Pool
I put jml's query output into a Google spreadsheet, so that we can annotate lines with the relevant bug etc. http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Ag3S65cphSMHdG1VckNSRXI4OHBmVmxGaklGVW4tcWchl=en_GB. Some observations: Some aren't linked to products; that's probably easily fixed. In some

Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2

2009-12-21 Thread Martin Pool
I think after the break we should focus on the vcs-imports of the top 100 Ubuntu packages until they're all working well. jml and spm helped with some scripts to query their current state, and we can map that into a spreadsheet showing the root cause for each failure. I'll ask the Bazaar team to

Re: Bazaar focus for 2.1 and 2.2

2009-12-17 Thread Martin Pool
2009/12/18 John Arbash Meinel j...@arbash-meinel.com: James Westby wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:19:32 +1100, Martin Pool m...@canonical.com wrote: My hypothesis is that we (Canonical's Bazaar team) will get to grips with UDD better if there is a tighter medium-term focus. The key question

Re: Rewriting Ubuntu branches

2009-12-13 Thread Martin Pool
2009/12/14 James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net: Hi, I wanted to split this out of the large mail so that we could complete a design of how this would work. Here's my initial proposal based on the feedback from that thread.  1) bzr-builddeb decorates pull, merge and perhaps a couple of

Re: your thoughts wanted on bzr team UDD focus

2009-12-03 Thread Martin Pool
2009/12/4 Francis J. Lacoste francis.laco...@canonical.com: On December 3, 2009, Martin Pool wrote: If there are existing bugs relevant to udd, or you know of appropriately concrete and self-contained things that can be filed as bugs, then tagging them and/or mentioning them here would

Re: your thoughts wanted on bzr team UDD focus

2009-12-02 Thread Martin Pool
2009/12/3 James Westby james.wes...@canonical.com: On Mon Nov 30 20:19:13 -0500 2009 Martin Pool wrote: I'd like to get a sanity check from UDD people on what the Bazaar team is going to do for our 2.1 release, which will have a feature freeze in February and go into Karmic. From

Re: udd team on launchpad

2009-11-22 Thread Martin Pool
If by udd you mean ~ubuntu-distributed-devel, then it was an abandoned attempt to create a team list. (Apparently for unclear reasons this needs to be on lists.ubuntu.com.) I'll delete it. - Martin -- ubuntu-distributed-devel mailing list ubuntu-distributed-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify