-----Original Message-----
From: Bill MacAllister [mailto:whm@stanford.edu]
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 3:43 PM
To: Michael Cree; debian-alpha@lists.debian.org;
Robert.Garron@ieeda.net; cpp@ekkaia.net; baryluk@smp.if.uj.edu.pl;
aloiret@debian.org
Subject: Re: Advancing Debian Alpha Porting
--On Thursday, April 14, 2011 08:48:10 PM +1200 Michael Cree
<mcree@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> Debian Alpha People,
>
> You may have noted the removal of the Alpha port from the Debian
> autobuilder network. Packages are no longer being built for the
> unstable distribution.
>
> Hopefully you have seen the promising message from Aurelien [1] that
> it is likely that the Alpha port of Debian can be accommodated in
> debian-ports in the next couple of weeks or so. To enable that we
> need to start organising ourselves. As no-one else has stepped up I
> am sending out this message but I have to admit I have limited
> knowledge of the Debian process of porting and packaging. I suspect
> we may be all on a step learning curve. Has anyone heard from Arthur
> Loiret? It would be nice to get an actual Debian Developer on board.
I have experience building debian packages that we use internally here at
Stanford. I can help with basic packaging.
> The debian-ports server is a wanna-build server. It maintains a
> database of built and needs to be built packages and manages the
> allocation of building to buildds. I believe debian-ports also hosts
> the accessible apt package repository.
>
> It appears we are to provide the Alpha buildds. We need at least two
> for redundancy but if older hardware is used then we may need three or
> four. Craig, Witold, Robert, are you all able to offer a machine to
> be a buildd? I don't think I can---I have an XP1000 that is my main
> computer that I use, and two PWS600au, but they are a bit slow.
I have several AlphaServer 1200s and DecServer 5000s that are idle right
now. I can probably only bring two onto the net, but I am happy to do that.
> Who is prepared to assist in the checking of built package logs,
> uploading successful builds, and reporting build failures?
> Hopefully we can get three or four of us so that it lightens the load
> and enables package builds to continue when someone is unavailable. I
> volunteer for some of this load --- but I won't be able to attend to
> it every day. It will be more likely twice a week.
I can also help with looking the the build logs.
> There are some other things we have to sort out to have a fully
> working Alpha autobuilder network but the above is a start.
Thanks for your efforts and let me know what I can do to help.
Bill
> Cheers
> Michael.
>
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2011/04/msg00018.html
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Bill MacAllister
Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University
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