Re: Build Frequency

Okay, I'm a little vague about the finer points of the snapshots, but
this is what I'm led to believe happens (in a nutshell)

The snapshots are built from scripts that grab the latest stuff from CSV
and try to build them.  If it succeeds then they get posted as the
latest snapshot.  If it fails it tries again.

The gnome snapshots have a lot of packages and problems building any of
these will bust the snapshot build, so it can mean a big wait between
builds.

Occasionally, when the time between snaps gets too long I think Jacob
interferes a little and gives it a nudge, but for the most part it's
just left to do it's thing.

Jacob, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.


Rodd

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 02:01, J. Gardner Biggs wrote:
> How often is the gnome 2 snapshot channel updated?
> 
> The last build I was offered was from the 17th of July.  Before that I was
> offered a snapshot just about every day for a week.
> 
> Is it unpredictably sporadic depending on hacking and bug quashing activity?
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alvin Thompson" <[email protected]>
> To: "Luis Villa" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:51 PM
> Subject: Re: New Build
> 
> 
> > switching back to zvt at a later date is fine--just let us know before
> > you do, so we can skip those builds. :)
> >
> > -alvin
> >
> >
> >
> > Luis Villa wrote:
> >
> > >On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 15:59, jacob berkman wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>i'm happy to announce that we got a green build :)
> > >>
> > >>i'm currently pushing a new build for red hat 7.2 and 7.3 which seem to
> > >>have working menus[1].
> > >>
> > >>new in this build is that gnome-terminal is using vte, the terminal
> > >>widget for gnome 2.2.  it does nifty things like reflow of text when you
> > >>resize the terminal, and can do aa text.  also the rendering bugs should
> > >>be gone :)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >FWIW, the snaps are using VTE ATM because
> > >
> > >(1) if RH is going to use it, I want it to be as robust as possible so
> > >as to minimize the impact on GNOME's bugzilla. More crashes caught now
> > >mean fewer crashes when 8.0 is released, which is good for GNOME. [Red
> > >Hat don't see all the stack traces, so they aren't quite as concerned
> > >about it as I am.]
> > >
> > >(2) it appears that the current effort to fix bug 78007 has stopped
> > >momentarily, so we want to test vte's i18n and stability to see if the
> > >community will do better with vte in the long term. Currently lots of
> > >people in the community think we will but we can't know until people are
> > >testing it.
> > >
> > >Most likely, if further attempts to fix 78007 or other zvt bugs are
> > >made, we'll switch back to zvt in an attempt to test those. But I can't
> > >honestly tell you if such attempts will be made or not, and if they
> > >aren't, and vte is sufficiently stable and functional that the community
> > >wants to switch to vte permanently, we'll probably stay there.
> > >
> > >Luis
> > >
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