From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ObJWU-0005M5-Kq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:34:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C3B0E08BA; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:34:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0E08E088A for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:34:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from angelstorm (cpe-76-93-166-255.san.res.rr.com [76.93.166.255]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5B2CF1B407E for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:34:12 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:34:07 -0700 From: Joshua Saddler To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Updated handbooks for autobuilds Message-ID: <20100720133407.5287a07d@angelstorm> In-Reply-To: <20091004114213.297eb354@angelstorm> References: <20091004114213.297eb354@angelstorm> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/X./DzB_ded7T92U145LitGQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 657e635a-1fd1-40ab-853c-d48f3d54a5bf X-Archives-Hash: 2c2a15adab4db776475e5bd9940d0c0d --Sig_/X./DzB_ded7T92U145LitGQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 11:42:13 -0700 Joshua Saddler wrote: > There. I did the x86 and amd64 handbooks (networked, anyway; who cares ab= out > networkless). They're now ready for the 10th anniversary. I'm pretty sure. >=20 > I also did the x86 quickinstall handbooks. It's been several months, so it's time for a status update: This week I finally completed the alpha, arm, hppa, ia64, and sparc handboo= ks. Still have to do PPC/PPC64. There are just a few open tracker bugs; onc= e these are fixed, that will free up all the ebuild and non-doc bugs that d= epend on our handbook bugs. While doing the handbooks, I discovered that some of our arches have been n= eglected, so this next part is a call for help with the weekly/monthly auto= builds. * * * What's up with the arches: x86 and AMD64 have not had new stages or LiveCDs in months. jmbsvicetto jus= t started working on 'em, but we need LOTS of eyes and fixers for our two b= iggest arches. Right now there's no one else. Most of the breakages seem to= come from toolchain and Python 3.x build failures (because *someone* wante= d it stable), but it needs troubleshooting. HPPA could use some assistance in generating autobuilt LiveCDs: the most re= cent CDs are from the 2008.0 release. If you've got the hardware, please co= ntact the HPPA team. IA64 hasn't had new media in a month, but I understand that armin76 is work= in' on it. If you've got Itanium hardware, contact the ia64 team. PPC64 hasn't produced much in the way of stages or CDs since October 2009. PPC32 and PPC64 (32-bit userland) has stages from May, but no CDs since 10/= 2009. PowerPC is one of our bigger secondary platforms, right? We need folk= s with the hardware to diagnose the problems and come up with some build fi= xes, so that we can adjust the autobuild scripts. Based on the number of releases, ARM, Sparc, and Alpha seem to be doing oka= y. More folks willing to watch for build failures and help out are, of cour= se always welcome. MIPS is is its own special arch; last releases are from 2007.0. However, r0= bertz and redhatter are working on getting stuff to first compile before pu= tting together autobuild releases. If you've got any kind of MIPS machine, = especially something fairly recent, please get in touch with the MIPS folks= to see about getting stuff to build. MIPS could use more recent stages. Th= e installation instructions for MIPS are so different they have their own e= ntirely nonconformant handbook. With working autobuilds, even on a monthly = (or longer) basis, I could fix up the handbooks to make them much easier fo= r folks to maintain. Nonstandard documentation is always extremely difficul= t to work with. Bottom line: the autobuilds idea is a sound one. However, it needs more mai= ntenance than you might think. We need more people to watch it and help out. Thanks for your time, Josh --Sig_/X./DzB_ded7T92U145LitGQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.15 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkxGCEEACgkQxPWMzpKk6kOHzwCaA4wAmsrG8t021R/ZAtt+7tPO 70AAoKGTpYcF4xnVz0XFUI+u3b5i9flM =pocp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/X./DzB_ded7T92U145LitGQ--