Re: [gentoo-project] Tinderbox and building everything

[Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org>]

El lun, 12-05-2014 a las 21:05 +0100, Markos Chandras escribió:
> On 05/10/2014 08:12 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > El sáb, 10-05-2014 a las 17:50 +0200, Tom Wijsman escribió:
> > [...]
> >> As for build failures; that boils down to either the maintainer fixing
> >> it as it is their problem, treecleaners cleaning it (but even they have
> >> a long backlog) or someone that is interested to fix it. But in no way
> >> it is QA's problem; as our task is Quality Assurance, which doesn't*
> >> imply fixing maintainer's problems (but does imply m-n / cleaning it).
> >>
> >>  * We can try to help to some extent.
> >>
> > 
> > At least from my point of view (as member or treecleaners), I would
> > welcome the tinderbox as would help to detect more broken packages, some
> > of them really old and that are not going to be fixed but, as nobody
> > uses them, they are broken for a long time without noticing.
> > 
> > 
> 
> While this is true, it's is not an immediate problem. If a package is
> terribly broken, but nobody uses it, then all it does is to occupy a few
> KB of cvs space. It is a problem, but not a problem we need to be
> nervous about.
> 

Ah, sure. I was referring that I would welcome that, but that it's not
so urgent (not sure if maybe "welcome" has a different sense for native
speakers :S)