On 2/21/11 10:35 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> So you are now saying that you cannot scale out this work to more people >> to release faster ? This is something that has to be done by Karanbir only ? >> > Dag, > > The packages have to be built in a specific order, preferably the order > that they are originally produced in, so that they can be linked > properly. Package A builds, then Package B, then Package C. If package > B is broken, it needs to be fixed, then Package C needs to be built, etc. > > This is not something that can be done by several people at the same > time in parallel, no. Not and be done correctly. Couldn't the process be wrapped into a matrix build in Hudson (or now Jenkins) across a large farm of build slaves with a list of successful builds falling out at the end? For at least the set of things that succeed in one of the common environments... > Seeing as how we are currently dealing with 2 trees in the QA directory > for testing right now (4.9 and 5.6) ... 6.0 will be waiting until we get > those out of QA. So you are constrained by workspace? Or number of people involved? And you don't see that as a problem that could be corrected? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com