On Jan 29, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Phil Holmes wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kastrup" <d...@gnu.org> > To: <lilypond-devel@gnu.org> > Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 2:34 PM > Subject: Re: somebody needs to run staging before 29 Jan > > >> James <pkx1...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> On 24 January 2012 22:20, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >>>> Janek Warchoł <janek.lilyp...@gmail.com> writes: >>>> >>>>>> Keeping the staging-merge going would be about five people >>>>>> committing to 50€ a month. That is, of course, not enough for me to >>>>>> live on. It merely means that taking on this duty will not further >>>>>> reduce the amount of time I can spend on LilyPond in total. >>>>> >>>>> That would be a waste of your skills. >>>> >>>> The skills will eventually become unavailable anyway if nobody pays for >>>> either major or minor variants of them, so that should be the smallest >>>> worry. I have not offered to do it for free, anyway. If the time I >>>> spend on that is paid for, it is no loss to anybody. >>>> >>>>> I don't have a 24/7 computer, >>>> >>>> Neither is a laptop, but I'd still get some stuff done. >>>> >>>>> but if no one else will volunteer i can run Patchy (the skills >>>>> necessary are quite like mine). I only need to pass my exams - 9 days >>>>> left till i have lots of time to investigate and improve Patchy (with >>>>> Julien's help). >>>> >>> >>> I have a machine that I can keep running 24/7 (well I have electricity >>> 24/7, Internet connection probably about 20/7) and have already >>> offered (and been trying) to run patchy but with limited success this >>> week. >> >> Patchy has been running for about 6 hours on my laptop trying to get the >> current staging (which is one trivial commit ahead of master) checked. >> And is still on it. It bogs down development use to a crawl. At least >> with this (the quite old laptop, about 1Ghz single core, since the last >> laptop died on me) this is not a serious option for LilyPond >> development. Even when the replacement laptop arrives, it will not be >> much of an option if development is to continue. I might see whether I >> manage to get the laptop with the dead screen working remotely, but I >> doubt it will take less than 4 hours for a patchy run. >> >> So seriously: this needs to move to a different computer if LilyPond >> development is of concern to you all. >> >> -- >> David Kastrup > > > I'm in the middle of revising for my main exam on Monday 30th. I'll have far > more free time next week, then 2 weeks off the following weeks. I'll try to > work out what needs doing on Tuesday. > > Does patchy just run make and make test, or does it do make doc as well? > > As you know, David, my Unix and git skills are close to zero, so it might be > a good use of your time (or someone else who can do this) to write an idiot's > guide to patchy - that might mean I can get up and running in less than a > day. I'd be happy to CG-ise these later. >
I've gotten in touch with the Univesrity of Paris VIII to see if they can host (a) Patchy. I'll keep all ya'll posted. Cheers, MS _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
