Re: ROCm RFS - workflow and pipeline

["M. Zhou" <lumin@debian.org>]

Hi Maxime,

You may want to apply this patch to some other git repositories:
https://salsa.debian.org/rocm-team/rocr-runtime/-/commit/f265ebf2b277a70c1c3322e15f55ba6ccc866afa

Arch-specific code in d/rules is bad.

On Fri, 2022-02-04 at 01:27 +0100, Maxime Chambonnet wrote:
> On 2/3/22 23:45, M. Zhou wrote:
> > rocr-runtime still has build dependency in NEW queue.
> > If we upload that it will immediately receive FTBFS bug
> > due to missing dependency.
> > 
> > Let me know if any of you truly want to see the package
> > in experimental with its build dependencies being absent.
> > Once B-D's are set I'll take care of it.
> 
> If NEW is the bottleneck for the whole Debian project, as we
> currently
> see it being discussed in debian-devel@l.d.o., I would tend to think
> that pushing interdependent packages simultaneously in the queue
> would
> be beneficial to the ROCm-Debian packaging effort.
> 
> If we push sequentially without masked time (parallel);
> if on average it takes one month to pass NEW for one package;
> if hipblas depends on hipsolver depends on rocsolver depends on
> rocblas
>   depends on rocrand depends on hipamd depends on rocr-runtime
>   depends on rocm-device-libs;
> it would take around 8 months for hipblas to reach experimental!
> And then there are the barriers exp => sid => testing => stable...
> 
> Being ready to announce an _unstable_ packaging of the ROCm stack
> 2-3 months after ROCm 5.0.1 releases (bound to happen in the
> following
> weeks), would be good for the mindshare of ROCm in my opinion.
> 
> > On Thu, 2022-02-03 at 22:55 +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> > 
> > > I'm hopeful to have time to make a final review and upload of
> > > the rocm-smi-lib in the weekend, I'm also fine if someone else
> > > beats me at it in the meantime.  I don't claim rocr-runtime as I
> > > believe Mo Zhou has more experience on this one, and leave
> > > rocminfo open for claims too for the moment.
> > > 
> > > Thank you for your contributions!
> > > 
> 
> Thank you Etienne, no big pressure - in that it is not a matter
> of days/weeks is it!
> 
> Best regards, Maxime
>