Re: Packaging review guidelines clarification

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer jdub homelinux org>]

> On 2/16/06, Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org> wrote:
>> The problem with that is that not every reviewer has the bandwidth to
>> support a mock build environment (particularly for development), so it's
>> probably left as a "should", but a failure being a blocker.
>
> there was a discussion at somepoint about scratch build trees in the
> buildsystem to help with update builds.
>
> Would it be a worthwhile to extend that discussion about the value of
> enhancing the build system to have scratch areas so reviewers could
> submit srpms that aren't in cvs yet to spin up rpms using the
> dedicated buildsystem hardware without having to pull the build
> environment down locally?
>
> I have no idea how much work that would entail.. but its thing I think
> which would most greatly impact the quality of the review process for
> binaries.  Not having access to all build arches and not having the
> bandwidth to pull down the development tree are large obstacles to
> doing quality review builds, at least for me.

+1

josh