How does universe works?

[Stefan Kluth]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Daniel Stone wrote:

> Er, our buildds don't usually suffer from transient failures like that.
> :)  If there's a power outage, then it'll get rebuild when the daemon
> comes up (unlikely as we're in a proper hosting facility with redundancy
> up the hizzle).  As for system crashes -- that happens for most packages
> (copies of logs are easily available, and automatically sent to the
> people responsible for that architecture), which will cause a retry, but
> I don't believe this happens for universe.
>
> I certainly wouldn't like 10,000 build logs to sift through in my inbox.

I understand that ... but isn't there a smarter way of doing this?  Like a
clever script which automatically analyses the logs and builds webpages
summarising the results in a nutshell: "build-failed", build-ok",
"build-in-progress" and with links to the logs.  With this we users could
get a clear picture of the status of a package in (multi)universe
ourselves without having to bother you.  We might even be able to figure
out ourselves why a package didn't build from the logs!  And having that
information we could perhaps even work out fixes.  At the moment it is
pure guesswork and trial-and-error.

Cheers, Stefan

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