Radu Gheorghiu wrote: > On 04/13/2011 07:55 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 04/13/2011 10:24 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> On 4/12/2011 5:40 PM, R P Herrold wrote: <snip> >> There is no "time limit" that we would go past where I would allow >> people who I do not know and trust to commit items into the CentOS tree. >> I have to use this in production and it has to be done correctly. It >> does not matter how long it takes if it is done right. > I don't think that's what we are discussing here about. I think we are > discussing about making it all open, so that everybody can setup a build > environment easily and start working on the real issues, not working on > the build environment itself. You replied to one of my questions, and > gave me plenty of information. I thank you for that. That's useful. > However, if I want to start troubleshooting packages right away, and > help CentOS, I can't do that. > I will first have to loop through emails from you on this list. Find > hints on the build environment. Loop through bugs.centos find hints > there as well. Probably it will take me much more time setting things > up, than actually debugging the trouble package. So, what I think we (we > = some of us) are asking, is make it easy for anybody to set this up and <snip> I'll chime in again: is there not a full build environment that can be checked out of the CentOS version control system? Or an rpm to install it? mark