Susanne Oberhauser-Hirschoff - 18:32 28.11.13 wrote:
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There is one thing that I'm missing, but that probably would need other changes on obs than using it differently and adding submit request groups.
The build server is what it says: a *build* server.
We use it as an integration server, quite successfully, and it comes close, but it is not explicitely targeted at integration.
So it is missing a few features to better support integration:
* Tools like git support 'merge' tracking of changes in branches back to mainline and from progress in mainline back to the branch. This then also allows to bisect regressions to the integration issue.
Well, this would be feature request for OBS team. I think it was discussed in the past many times already - that if during initial obs design instead of reinventing the wheel git would be used to do version control system, things would be simpler now... But hard to revert that although some tried over the years...
* Integration means testing, and testing may be a gate/decision point whether further builds make sense at all (think rings). This tracking of test status is not in the tool. And tests should gate further work based on test status. And tests, automatic or manual, have a smart and a stupid order doing them.
So you would like to see better integration between openQA and OBS?
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However how will this help dependent multi-target projects (like gnome, or kde or databases or d:lang:*) to likewise be stable at all^wmost times?
It looks to me like the flow that is proposed here continues to break projects that build for both factory and other released distributions.
Few comments: * It will not break stable versions * Changes done in devel project should be send to Factory anyway ** If changes are in Factory, base is not going to change to break everything without fix provided Sooo, the solution is simple, if you want your stuff not getting broken as nobody know what you have, submit your changes to Factory and don't keep them to yourself :-) Devel projects are packages on the way to Factory anyway ;-) -- Michal HRUSECKY SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. openSUSE Team Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xFED656F6 19000 Praha 9 mhrusecky[at]suse.cz Czech Republic http://michal.hrusecky.net http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org