From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A752C1381FA for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 20:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 18E2BE0BCE; Mon, 12 May 2014 20:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 845E1E0BCD for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 20:07:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (unknown [5.69.184.25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hwoarang) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 19C5233FE2E for ; Mon, 12 May 2014 20:07:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <53712983.3070201@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 21:05:23 +0100 From: Markos Chandras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Tinderbox and building everything References: <20140509172925.29e3f212@gentoo.org> <536D13CF.2000403@gentoo.org> <2494968.RL10ZYJ7qd@localhost> <536E2087.3050409@gentoo.org> <20140510175040.6e7c7dc2@gentoo.org> <1399749174.3147.2.camel@belkin5> In-Reply-To: <1399749174.3147.2.camel@belkin5> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 9ca65b44-5d99-4e24-a686-4534cab7218a X-Archives-Hash: 23d36e136b66b5c75ccbefef78ab41ee 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. -- Regards, Markos Chandras