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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:28:28 +0200
From:      Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
Cc:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Shaun Amott <shaun@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Solutions for the PR load problem
Message-ID:  <8de42f8685d6371428f6dc2aca7fb2f0@bluelife.at>
In-Reply-To: <20100710090038.GB16045@e.0x20.net>
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On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:00:38 +0200, Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 10:51:01PM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
>> On 09/07/2010 22:00, Shaun Amott wrote:
>> > 
>> > I'm not sure how many non-committers were aware of / given access to
>> > tb3
>> > and tb4 when they were around, but if tinderbox were used as a matter
>> > of
>> > course, it would, I believe go some way to speeding things up.
>> > 
>> 
>> So if I set up a private tinderbox and provide amd64 and i386
>> 6-/7-/8-stable logs with every PR I submit it would hasten the
>> processing of my PRs?
> 
> The more complex a port is and the more dependencies it has the more
> work a committer has to check if the PR is error-free.
> Having TB-Logs would prove that the port builds fine, and the PR is more
>  likely to be taken.

Exactly for this reason beat@ has created a Tinderbox Virtual Machine for
virtualbox. So port maintainers can test their updates in a tinderbox and
discover problems earlier without the need of a dedicated tinderbox machine
and all the setup woes.

http://vboxtindi.chruetertee.ch/

-- 
Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/



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