On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Tru Huynh wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:00:57PM +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: >> On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Tru Huynh wrote: >> >>> right: you are locked inside a maze, there is one exit somewhere. >>> Everyone start from the same place, eveyone benefit from the >>> person who find the exit. We don't have the solution at the moment, >>> You get the QA builds once we find the exit. If you finish before us >>> let us know how you did it. >> >> No, you have 2500 mazes, and you have to finish each of them before you >> can start the next one. In the meantime, other people (including the >> CentOS people) are getting lost in that same (but copied) maze, so you >> cannot help each other find the exit, until you do. > > My maze is the build order (ie dependancy order of the SRPMS), > What are yours? how do you get to that number of mazes? The build order is not what took 86 days, was it ? > Feel free to coordinate, we will all profit from your coordination skills. We don't need the coordination anymore, you have the secret now for CentOS 5.6 (and the previous builds) I am certain that if more people understood the basic problems with building CentOS, more people would be skilled to help in the next iteration. Now every release that is closed, is a lost opportunity to attract more people. >> Let's waste time together fixing something that someone may already have >> fixed, who wouldn't be excited about that ! > > Is this kind of useless discussion better? If it would help to get more people the skills to help with the release, absolutely ! No community project thrives by keeping potential contributors ignorant. It's only useless if there's no change. -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]