Re: Fwd: a common release effort

On Wednesday 15 December 2010 20:32:10 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> Seems the KDE-on-Windows ppl are in for an end-of-year sprint. Be sure to
> keep up with it and in case it works out, write about it ;-)

Yep, I gathered from that list (further down the thread) that there would 
probably be an article coming our way.

> And maybe help make it happen by blogging and asking for help?!?

Sure :-)

Cheers,
Stu
 
> 
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> 
> Subject: a common release effort
> Date: Thursday 09 December 2010, 18:37:15
> From: Patrick Spendrin <[email protected]>
> To: KDE on Windows <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> As you all might know, we haven't had a release for a long time.
> To change this, I want to get out the KDE 4.5.4 release in the coming
> days (before christmas at least).
> 
> I have prepared the buildserver to restart a new try to build the kde
> 4.5.4 release every 6 hours (6am, 12am, 6pm, 12pm German Time).
> 
> Currently I have added the following compilers:
> mingw4, mingw-w32, msvc2008 and msvc2010.
> 
> There will probably be quite a lot of errors while building KDE on those
> different compilers, so I thought we could split the task to fix these
> builds on this list here?
> 
> How I think it could work:
> - Those interested in it, would set up a build environment with their
> preferred compiler dedicated to the release (I can give the settings of
> the build server as hints as well).
> 
> - The Server would run and fail on a certain package, you can see that
> on the release dashboard
> (http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/dashboard/release/).
> 
> - Somebody would step up and fix this error locally:
> * You can create a patch with
> 
> > emerge --createpatch --target=4.5.4 kde-4.5/kdetoys
> 
> * The patch can be found under
> %KDEROOT%\build\kde-4.5\PACKAGENAME-PACKAGEVERSION.
> * You would add this patch to the emerge package under
> emerge\portage\kde-4.5\kdetoys and also change the .py file by adding a
> line like:
> self.patchToApply['4.5.4'] = [('kdetoys-4.5.4-20101209.diff', 1)]
> into the subinfo section.
> 
> - After the patch has been applied, the buildserver would svn up his
> emerge directories, retry the build with the now fixed package, succeed
> and package & upload this package.
> 
> - You would look for the next package to get fixed ;-).
> 
> The advantage of this way is that we can distribute the work onto
> multiple shoulders.
> 
> If you have any comments about that, just send them.
> 
> regards,
> Patrick
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