[Bradford] Meeting tonight.

Tue Aug 20 21:02:42 UTC 2013

and the PPA now actually seem to contain something.

https://launchpad.net/~kriss-o/+archive/gamecake

Haven't tested it yet (still waiting on the 32bit version to build) but if
it managed to compile then I reckon we may have a win.

Next up is fixing its description/text and setting it to the right version
number.

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Kriss at XIXs.com <Kriss at xixs.com> wrote:

>
> I'm currently building using the following repo.
>
> https://bitbucket.org/xixs/build.gamecake
>
> The build script in the base is the script that tries to build something
> that I can then upload to launchpad.
>
> The files under debian are the things that are generally getting tweaked.
>
> not very useful commit messages though since I have no idea what I'm doing
> :)
>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:28 PM, David Carpenter <
> david.carpenter at nornir.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> 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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>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Kriss
>> >> >
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>> >
>> >
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