[Bradford] Meeting tonight.

[David Carpenter]

Can we follow your antics on launchpad? Is there a URL?

David

On 20 August 2013 15:29, Kriss at XIXs.com <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.
>
>
>
> 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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>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
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>> >
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