On 31 May 2015 at 18:43, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 05/30/2015 05:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > On 30/05/2015 Kay Schenk wrote: > >> On 05/30/2015 01:57 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > >>> Assuming AOO builds on CentOS 6, is there any reason to insist > >>> on CentOS 5? > >> There was a dissension. I did ask about the ramifications -- what > >> specifically IS the issue to moving to CetnOS 6 -- but got no reply. > > > > I think it was already explained by Ariel and me at the time. But in > > short, OpenOffice 4.x has CentOS 5.x (or the equivalent Red Hat 5.x) as > > a baseline distribution: in a certain sense, we commit to keeping > > sources buildable on CentOS 5 and to distributing binaries that run on > > distributions as old as CentOS 5. In order to change our baseline > > distribution we would normally need a compelling technical reason or a > > major version change (say, OpenOffice 5.x). > > I understand this but from a technical standpoint, what are the show > stoppers with ver 6 vs 5? Or, put another way, what would be impacted in > AOO if this change were made today? > > > > > Then for the buildbots we already use more modern distributions, but a > > CentOS buildbot would best be setup with CentOS 5 for the reasons > > explained above: a CentOS 5 buildbot would even allow us to build > > releases directly on it. > > Sure, in fact, this is what Juergen suggested in his resignation as > Release Manager, and for some reason, I thought (maybe?) we had agreed on: > > http://markmail.org/message/qh6uzkfjcya647sb > > > I'm not saying this is a prerequisite for > > releasing 4.1.2, I'm simply explaining why the current situation makes > > it much more useful to have a CentOS 5 buildbot than a CentOS 6 one. > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > > > OK, thanks. In summary, we seem to agree that establishing buildbots for > our actual binary release candidates is more than just important, but > necessary. I do admit that maybe this wasn't clear to everyone. > +1, and I am convinced that as soon as we get what we already have operational, infra will not be a release-blocker if we need additional buildbots.
Looking at other threads, it seems our Mac buildbots are in the process of being configured, does anybody have a planned ETA ? Who can/will look at the windows buildbot, it seems svn is not working ? We also need to reconfigure all buildbots to run with release config. I am quite busy with a couple of other things, so I do not have spare cycles at the moment. rgds jan i. > > > -- > -------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "We can all sleep easy at night knowing that > somewhere at any given time, > the Foo Fighters are out there fighting Foo." > -- David Letterman > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
