Mooloolaba Ubuntu-focused Bazaar sprint

[Jonathan Lange]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:40 AM, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> On Fri Nov 06 17:58:50 -0500 2009 Robert Collins wrote:
>> Can you expand on that? For grumpy I imagine bzr-builder being very
>> useful (I've been using it and fed a 'watch PPA builds' feature to James
>> Westby recently), but I don't see why bzr-builder is useful or relevant
>> to source package builds?
>>
>> bzr-builddeb is (AFAIK) the only way to build a proper debian upload
>> from a source branch, with matching sha1's for the upstream tarball, not
>> a native upload etc :- thats the thing we're aiming to end up in the
>> Ubuntu archive for BFB builds, isn't it?
>
> There is scope for unifying the tools so that you can get the listed
> features when going through bzr-builder as well.
>
> Once that is done then BFB almost becomes a build from a degenerate
> recipe.
>
> Then there are two things to consider, Launchpad architecture, and adoption.
>
> For the former it may be that the LP team wishes to implement one "backend",
> with BFB being pushed through as a simple recipe. That's up to them.
>
> For the latter having BFB being presented as one end of a scale with grumpy
> at the other might help inspire people to try different things, and drive
> adoption of daily builds. There are some issues to work out here, but in
> principle this is possible.
>

I don't quite follow. If we have only recipe-driven builds on
Launchpad, then have an easy way to make a daily build every time we
build from a branch.

jml