[Bradford] Meeting tonight.

[Kriss at XIXs.com]

Hiya,

CC'd back into bradlug since there were some other people interested and I
figure it might be relevant.



The quality control part of PPAs seems to be based on a form of faith based
geek magick.

You are required to download a code of conduct, sign it using PGP and
return it to them.

Which I did, without reading it. I assume it said something along the lines
of "Be excellent to each other!".

https://launchpad.net/codeofconduct

Honestly this whole just reminds me of trying to use sourceforge and why I
stopped doing that some time ago. :)



Right now I have submitted some code to a PPA, yesterday, and have
currently no response back as to why it did not work, or even that it did
not work or even just acknowledging that I submitted some code. IE no
automated feedback whatsoever.

Maybe something will pop up later today. I don't actually expect it to
build due to missing dependencies, but I *was* expecting an error
response...

Preferably within 24 hours otherwise this is going to be a rather painful
process.



On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:19 PM, John R. Hudson
<j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>wrote:

> Hi Kriss
>
> I realised that Brian and I had a brief conversation last evening on
> this topic which might have been useful for you.
>
> He was commenting that the PPA system didn't appear to have much quality
> control. I commented that the same may be true of the Open Build
> Service.
>
> This was originally SUSE's internal build software but it was
> open-sourced several years ago and supports the SUSE repositories, the
> official openSUSE repositories, a number of community repositories and
> personal repositories.
>
> AFAIK the only quality checks on personal repositories are inherent in
> the Open Build Service software.
>
> This will build packages for a wide range of platforms from Centos to
> Ubuntu - all the KDE software is built on it - but not so far the
> Raspberry PI - however that could change.
>
> I've only found one piece of software packaged from a personal
> repository that did not work and am happily running several programs
> from such repos.
>
> You can check it out at
> http://openbuildservice.org/
>
> John
> --
> On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 18:13 +0100, Kriss at XIXs.com wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > I don't suppose anyone going tonight has any experience with using
> > ubuntu launchpad and the whole PPA to build code system?
> >
> >
> > I'm currently trying to get a PPA setup to build/distribute a project
> > of mine, but of course this activity is somewhat arcane.
> >
> >
> > Lots of strange configuration files and I'm probably doing everything
> > wrong, so not having much luck at the moment. Just generally bashing
> > my head against the usual strange and rather pointless problems.
> >
> >
> > Even when thats solved I'm going to have some advanced future problems
> > such as I would like to also support arm and I currently cross compile
> > for arm but have no idea how to fit that sort of activity into the
> > auto build systems and their DLL hell coping mechanisms.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:39 AM, David Spencer
> > <baildon.research at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >         > Your putting your rants on video now ?
> >
> >
> >         Nobody wants to see that :-)
> >
> >         By the way:
> >         >> There's a fifteen min [1] video I'd like to share.  I'll
> >         bring speakers
> >
> >         404 Footnote Not Found
> >         Should have refined fifteen min to 14 min 49 sec.
> >
> >         -D.
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kriss
> >
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>
>


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