[Bradford] Meeting tonight.

Tue Aug 20 14:44:36 UTC 2013

Hi Kriss

That sounds rather different from the Open Build Service where you open
your own repository, build your own code and it automatically reports
success or otherwise in the various builds.

John
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On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 15:29 +0100, Kriss at XIXs.com wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> 
> CC'd back into bradlug since there were some other people interested
> and I figure it might be relevant.
> 
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> 
> 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. :)
> 
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> 
> 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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