Re: buildd/porter/maintainer roles again
On 07/12/2010 10:49 PM, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On 2010-07-12, Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:24:19PM +0300, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>>> I think it should be. Or the porters should monitor the builds on their
>>> architecture to be able to detect FTBFS and act on them, without the
>>> maintainer having to manually ping them.
>>
>> If I were a porter, I would not bother doing this if the buildd admin
>> did not care as much as a porter would; such inattention or apathy is
>> very frustrating and makes one want to cease being a porter.
>
> I do think that buildd admins that doesn't care for the architechture
> they are buildd maintaining for should try hard handing over that
> responsibility to someone who does care for the arch.
Or they should work closely with the porters to notify them about build logs
which smell like issues porters should look into.
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