Hi! Fedora has an awesome feature for packagers: scratch builds. It would be great if we could steal the idea.
I find myself doing incremental uploads just to fix bugs that the previous upload revealed on some weird arch. At home, I can reasonably test only amd64 and arm64 -- especially if valgrind is involved, qemu-user is not up to scratch. There are porterboxes but using them is inconvenient and involved, especially when the task is "build on all archs, report failures". Thus, what would you guys say about a new distribution, "scratch"? It would be a kind of extra-experimental that doesn't put its build results anywhere persistent. Throwing away built .debs would be ok, keeping just logs. Like any other upload currently, it would be restricted to DDs/DMs only -- I'm told buildds have inadequate isolation to run untrusted builds, even without taking into account container/VM escapes, etc. On IRC, Ansgar requested keeping signed records as a precaution against hijacked DD accounts; that idea sounds good to me. While every of us can (and in 99% cases does) test on amd64, it would be nice to ease testing elsewhere as well. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Remember, the S in "IoT" stands for Security, while P stands ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ for Privacy. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
