On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 14:53 -0400, Christian Schaller wrote:
> I'm confident the legal issues can be worked out. However, we
> definitely need to be concerned with security and repeatably as well;
> we don't want to make binaries built on a developer's personal laptop
> be our main downloadable. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "full
> Windows and MacOS X harness".
My point was that we are not going into the business of making Mac and Windows
software on a large scale, so demanding the same process and that we have the
kind of facilities we have for building Fedora and Linux software is a
crazy overkill. It goes into the old joke that when you ask an engineer to solve
a problem instead of spending 5 minutes solving it he/she spends 5 Months creating
a framework for solving problems like it, and that is what I am warning against here.
We need to focus on solving our challenges efficiently and choose solutions that are
proportional to the scope of the problem, not rat holing ourselves.
So while it of course would be wonderful to have a full fledged Windows and Mac harness
that matches what we have for building Fedora, considering the size of the problem I
think
having something a lot simpler would be more appropriate to the size of the challenge we
are having here. So a shared office Mac or shared office Windows system might be enough.
Of course, if we were building FMW as a cross-distro project with all
the other distros who need something exactly like it, we could be
sharing all that work and taking advantage of other people's expertise
in those areas...
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