[indiana-discuss] [sw-porters-discuss] contrib and pending repo processes

[Luis de Bethencourt]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Nicolas Williams
<Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:39:21PM -0800, John Sonnenschein wrote:
>>
>> On 18-Nov-08, at 2:21 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote:
>>
>> >On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:09:30PM -0800, John Sonnenschein wrote:
>> >>That would be acceptable. I'd still prefer the code to be built on an
>> >>internal machine such that we have an exact record, but I'm willing
>> >>to
>> >>bend this far.
>> >
>> >I think you'd have to insist that it be [re-]built by "Sun employees
>> >on
>> >isolated machines" (certainly not just on SWAN!).
>> >
>> >For an open community I think that's likely too much.  No?
>>
>> Sorry, not Sun internal, but OpenSolaris internal/controlled. If
>> Dennis Clarke for example runs the machine and everyone decides that
>> he's trusted enough to run the build infrastructure, that's fine too
>> IMO, it's more about the controlled build environment.
>
> OK, so you want trusted builders only -- anyone can contribute spec
> files, or what have you, but only trusted builders can submit built
> pkgs.
>
> I think that can happen naturally with votes to begin with.  We could
> start with that and see what happens.
>
> Alternatively we should hurry up with a spec file-based consolidation
> and go from there.  That's a *big* change in direction, at least
> outwardly, though in a way that's exactly what JDS and pkgfactory are
> doing, so perhaps not such a big deal.
>
> Nico
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I agree with all Nico points. Spec file based submissions built in a
controlled machine.

And yes, in the Community Infraestructure project of JDS we are
building exactly that.

Luis de Bethencourt


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