sandbox targets

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 18:14 +0100, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 20:46 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > Maybe one could request a build for the HEAD of CVS, without
> > > tagging, then one could make changes to the spec files
> > > without bumbing up the release tag.
> > 
> > 
> > You can't request a build right now w/o a tag. Moreover doesn't that get
> > pretty odd when we think about requesting a sandbox build for the
> > non-development distro targets?
> What about the HEAD of the branch? But it's probably more complicated
> than I thought. Not that important though, I would just find it little
> less annoying to use for making testing builds without tagging.

On the flip side, I think that just allowing HEAD builds would more or
less encourage people to just dump builds into the buildsystem.  If we
-require- you to tag the build before submitting it, I would guess that
little barrier would make people think twice before submitting it.

We need to strike a balance here between people who might use the build
system as a personal development machine (if they don't have PPC for
example) and those people who do actually have a reasonable expectation
that the package will build for them.

A small little barrier like requiring a tag, while not much, is a
psychological handbrake on dumping stuff into the buildsystem.

Dan