Koji

[Antonio Olivares]

--- "Dr. Diesel" <dr.diesel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Will,
> 
> I'm still discovering all the items I like!  So far
> being able to test
> immediately has my attention, ie: testing for an
> ICH7 kernel that has
> sound!! :D.  I've also enjoyed being able to easily
> read the change
> log associated and the ability to download a
> previous version if
> something goes wrong.
> 
> But most impressive is the level of integration
> required to make it
> all happen.  Credit is due, you guys know what your
> doing!  Innovation
> like this is exactly what Linux needs...
> 
> Thanks for all the hard work!
>
You are right on Dr. Diesel.  Linux is coming along. 
Several people tell me that they will have to learn it
since Dell now ships Ubuntu. 
> 
> Andy
> 
> p.s. I wonder when m$s build system will be online??
> 
It will happen whenever M$ releases their code, ie.
make it opensource.  But that is very hard to believe
that it will ever happen. 

Regards,

Antonio 
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/31/07, Will Woods <wwoods at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 16:47 +0200, Valent Turkovic
> wrote:
> > > On 5/31/07, Dr. Diesel <dr.diesel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > Pleased yes!  For some reason your not??
> *puzzled* :)
> > > >
> > > > On 5/31/07, Valent Turkovic
> <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On 5/31/07, Dr. Diesel <dr.diesel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > > > You guys are awesome!  Very
> impressive......
> >
> > Dr. Diesel - What about it do you like? I'm
> curious.
> >
> > > > >
> > > > > Is this spam or someone really pleased with
> Koji? *puzzled*
> > >
> > > I'm really pleased with Fedora - but I don't
> understand what is so
> > > great about koji? I haven't really used it so
> pardon my ignorance -
> > > but please explain it.
> >
> > So, Koji is our new build system, which we set up
> after F7t4. You can
> > check it out here:
> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji
> >
> > (Yes, we replaced the entire build system for
> Fedora, just 3 weeks
> > before the release of F7. Yes, we are a little bit
> crazy. But we said we
> > would merge Core and Extras and get a release out
> by May 31 and by God,
> > we did.)
> >
> > Koji is very cool for the package developers too,
> but I'm not much of a
> > developer so we won't get into that.
> >
> > For us testers, the most obvious benefit is that
> we all have access to
> > newly-built packages the *moment* the builds
> complete.
> >
> > If you are waiting to test a fix, you don't need
> to wait for rawhide to
> > update, or for the package(s) to get pushed to
> updates-testing. The
> > developer can say, "Hey, go grab the latest
> 'screen' update from koji".
> >
> > You hit the "Search" box, type in "screen", and
> poof:
> >
>
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=927
> >
> > Every build of 'screen' ever. Click one and you
> can see the changelogs,
> > build logs, whatever. You can see who built it and
> when. You can
> > download whichever packages you like.
> >
> > There's a lot more cool stuff, but that alone is
> enough to make me
> > deliriously happy.
> >
> > Fun tip: right-click on the "search" box in
> firefox and select "Add a
> > Keyword for this Search...". Add a bookmark with
> the keyword "koji", and
> > now you can just type:
> > "koji [packagename]" (e.g.: "koji kernel")
> > in the firefox address bar to go straight to the
> koji page for that
> > package.
> >
> > Any other koji tips and tricks people want to
> share? This koji thing is
> > really cool and we're just starting to see its
> potential. Plus a lot of
> > people worked reeeally hard on it and they'll be
> happy to hear how much
> > people like it!
> >
> > -w
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