Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (375 mails)

["Dr. Peter Poeml" <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

Hello John,

I welcome your input.

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:19:13AM -0600, John Calcote wrote:
> Hi list.
>
> I've read the online wiki docs, and they're great--as far as they go.
> Unfortunately, they don't go very far. Don't get me wrong--I love the
> opensuse build service! I can't believe we got along all these years
> without it.
>
> The trouble is, there's no proper use-case description. I don't mean a
> formal design document. I mean a true user scenario document,
> answering questions like:
>
> "Why would I want to use this tool?"
> "How do I properly use it?"
> "What's the proper workflow?"
> "When do I build locally?"
> "What philosophy do I use to decide when to commit?"
> "When do I publish?"
> "Which repos do I choose?"
> "Should I disable publish during testing?"
> "What do I tell my package users about my use of the OBS?"
> etc, etc.

If you start a wiki page with those questions, I promise that I'll do my
share and provide answers to them.

> Before you send me off to http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service, or any
> of it's sub-links (Tutorial, WorkFlow, etc), just know that I've
> already read these documents--committed them to memory, in fact.
> They're not that helpful. Oh, sure, they provide the basic "HowTo"
> information. What's missing is the "Why" information.

There is a lot of outdated and unsorted stuff accumulated meanwhile. Not
all os useful, especially the outdated stuff.

I have a hard time getting an overview in that wiki. Where to start with
cleaning up? Does somebody have a list with all pages concerning the
build service??

Peter
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