Re: [MoM] FAST progress (was Re: [MoM] fast: Add further dependencies to enable chroot / cowbuilder to build)
Hi Shayan,
On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 03:40:36PM +0100, Shayan Doust wrote:
> > Its on my todo list. Unfortunately the build time takes some time and I
> > will not stress test the battery of my laptop. Reminding is fine in any
> > case. :-)
>
> Ahh that's fine and understandable :-). I assumed maybe you offloaded
> this on some build server. I am not too sure of the procedure, but with
> any task that has a maintainer hardware limitation, would debian provide
> environments or remote machines for a duration of time? I am somewhat
> working blindly with this package so it's good to know for the future
> instead of bugging you for a hundred builds :-).
I could use remote hardware but in 98% my laptop is fine. In those rare
cases I use my desktop as fallback. Remembering how these remote
servers might work takes more time for me.
> > I admit new queue can be stress test the patience of newcomers. To be
> > short: You can never know how long a package takes. Despite the name
> > is "queue" its not a FIFO procedure. Sometimes its helpful to give some
> > hints about priorities and why a package might be more important than
> > others. BTW, I even had send a mail to ftpmaster ranking your packages
> > in the category "Would motivate newcomer" which was below "needed for
> > bcbio" package. Seems that ranking was not helpful to proceed with the
> > list I gave. :-(
>
> It's more of just a curiosity factor, and sometimes educating eager
> upstream developers as I'm very patient. Surprisingly, there aren't that
> many listed as ftp masters for the amount of package awaiting upload.
Yes, its also a person-power bottleneck.
> Would it be productive to work on another package alongside this FAST
> package?
If you are just bored by waiting, yes, why not? Or check the list of
bugs under
https://bugs.debian.org/debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org
Currently there are lots of those due to gcc migration and even more
due to Python2 removal. If you are happy with gdb you can check
https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2019/09/msg00013.html
or also
https://bugs.debian.org/806214
So new packages are fine but fixing some bugs inbetween is also very
valuable. As a general remark to everybody: For the moment fixing
only one bug per week brings you in our bugs statistics:
http://blends.debian.net/liststats/bugs_debian-med.png
:-P
Hope that's sufficient inspiration to not get bored inbetween. ;-)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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