Re: developer accessible machines
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:29:29PM -0600, Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 08:13:08PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:07:44AM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Are there plans to make hppa machines available to developers in the
> > > > near future ? The current ones (paer, penalosa, peri, and sarti) are
> > > > either dead (sarti), restricted (penalosa and peri), or locked down
> > > > (paer)... That doesn't help maintainers to smoothly deal with hppa
> > > > specific bugs.
> > >
> > > There are machines available to whoever makes a (valid) request to
> > > access them. See http://www.parisc-linux.org/cluster.html
> >
> > Do (some of) these machines have the necessary tools for DDs to do their
> > work (i.e. debian toolchain and possibility to install build
> > dependencies) ?
>
> They are not part of the debian security/login infrastructure.
> They are intended for kernel developers use but are currently
> under utilized. I don't mind a few people applying for access.
> But I have no intention of supporting every DD out there.
>
> My expectation is the vast majority of DD's can use the couple
> of machines HP has donated and (I think) Lamont has setup for
> debian.org.
Well, right now, the vast majority of DD's can use nothing because of
the reasons invoked in my first message...
Now, the hidden question in my previous message was who shall i contact
for such an access. Considering there are several test rings, which one
is more appropriate for debian work ?
Mike
PS: FWIW, I need to debug the xptcstubs in the xulrunner package.
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