[fab] Fedora Logo Proposal

[Dennis Gilmore]

On Wednesday 09 August 2006 8:12 am, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 08:40, Rahul wrote:
> > We dont need to provide them hardware. We need to connect the existing
> > hardware to the buildsystems and do the regular builds, testing etc.
>
> This will be a huge barrier for fostering lower tier arches.  Some of the
> hardware they get will not be suitable for placement in the colo.  We
> shouldn't hamstring them by forcing their resources to be within Fedora's
> grasp.  We have to trust them to use their own hardware in their own
> infrastructure to get the project off the ground.

Having Done  the whole building extras for another arch  thing.  Ill put my 2c 
in I have and have access to enough hardware to build extras.  currently i do 
it by running a daily cron job  that rsyncs the extras tree and queues all 
the packages.  Ones that fail to build  I need to manually look at  and 
either fix  or ignore.  Some packages  build  but dont run.  Currently  i 
cant test everything.  I test what i use  but rely on the Aurora community to 
file bugs.  I have in aurora's  bugzilla  extras components  but have never 
yet had  a bug report filed.  When i started  I posted to some of the fedora 
lists  stating what i was doing  and checking out if i could use Red hats 
bugzilla  and have any sparc bug cced to me. which is a level of granularity 
that bugzilla does not offer 

I have a perl script i wrote  that is on my website  that parses the output of 
decribecomponents.cgi and inserts into my db the new ones.  its kinda crude  
but available under the GPL.  I guess perhaps i should post how i have 
everything setup so that other arches  have a guide to follow.  

i have had quite a bit of feedback in irc and email.  and if people ask  for 
packages i direct them to get them in Fedora extras.  I have not had any 
package requests  that are SPARC specific. Some packages in extras have 
aurora specific conditionals. most bugs i have filed have been well received 
every so often I get a maintainer who says  we done support sparc  so im not 
fixing.  Even though i generally have a fix.  I get the same thing with core 
packages also.  Most maintainers are good  a few  just wont touch it.

I personally try to get everyfix i make applied upstream (fedora core/extras)  
as i feel they should live there.  or  be futher passed to the individual 
projects.  As far as infrastructure goes.  I think we have what we need to 
put out a good product.  Some of what we have is rack mountable  but not all 
of it is.  I use a similar setup  to extras.  so if at some point  we merge 
things in it shouldn't be to hard a too much of a change.

-- 
Dennis Gilmore, RHCE
Proud Australian