Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (673 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Le jeudi 18 septembre 2008, à 14:36 +0200, Christoph Thiel a écrit :
> > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:26:52PM +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > we don't have any Beta1 test builds yet, since we had to trigger a complete
> > > rebuild very late in the process -- therefore we are still bootstrapping 
> > > the
> > > distribution and expect first test builds sometime tomorrow. I'll keep you
> > > posted on the upcoming Beta1 release!
> >
> > Since we are still working on getting an installable build done, we won't be
> > able to release Beta1 today. I'll post an update on our progress later.
>
> Just wondering: I don't know why we don't have an installable build yet,
> but are we noting the reasons somewhere so that we can make sure it
> won't happen in the next cycle?

A couple of reasons so far:
* changes in the build environment (no, we should not do them so late -
  should be one-time thing)
* features that are late and not tested
* packages submitted to factory that do not build (including some
  submitted from the build service that did not even build there!)
* the usual bugs you always have but we find them later than normal this
  time

For some of these (last minute changes) it's difficult to do something.

And you also need to declare a fixpoint to get everything in, you cannot
move for ever...

It's not too bad from my experience - it just shows that there is little
buffer from submission to release of media,

Andreas
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