2588 - Journal unusable

[Michael Stone]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:27:21PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
>G'day Chris,
>
>I'll give a partial line of reasoning response ... this is not complete,
>I'm short of time.
>
>Where I said public, I meant developer builds that can be used by other
>developers.  I didn't mean to imply public builds for testing by
>non-developers.  I mean the difference between what a developer does and
>what a developer releases.  That isn't only OLPC originated code, that's
>also the choice of what RPMs to accept from outside.  Accepting lots of
>RPMs at once is the same as making lots of code change.
>
>Why don't you have private build streams?  That's what I can do with
>debxo, for instance ... build on my desktop, test on an XO, and then
>avoid releasing anything to the public until I've verified that what
>I've changed actually works.
>
>Why can't the build system be replicated so that each developer can test
>their change before releasing it?  What is it about the build system that
>prevents it?  I thought the build system was just a set of downloads and
>put-it-together processes.

It can, it has been, and no one seems to care. See 

   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Build_system
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Building_custom_images
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Puritan
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Mstone/Commentaries/Releases_2#Practical_Matters

for some historical records of the discussions.

Michael