On 28 January 2011 01:36, Thomas S Hatch <thatch45@gmail.com> wrote:
I have been passively working on a similar project called quarters, but I must admit that my motivation is somewhat low not knowing if the project is in demand. So here is my question, do we think that something like this would be a benefit to Arch? Is this the type of project that should merit my attention?
You have my personal full support. Does this Koji allow people to upload their own .spec/.src packages and offer them a build? I'm thinking something like that for quarters would be good. We can separate the building into 3 categories: == Distribution == This is where devs and TUs connect. If you can work out some kind of integration, it will be totally seamless. Subversion hooks can trigger the builds, which then are placed in the respective home folders in gerolde/sigurd. They can be auto uploaded with dbscripts as well but I don't know if that's a good idea, mainly because there needs to be inspection (namcap and other habits) before the binary gets served across the mirrors. == Projects == Any third-party packaging initiative can hook up to the system, and in turn get their binaries cooked. No-one is responsible for bad packages. == Community == Users submit a PKGBUILD and in turn can download a Pacman package. No-one is responsible for bad packages.