Suggestion: Continuous mass rebuild

[Jesse Keating]

On 07/29/2012 10:38 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>
> Currently we're doing a mass rebuild about every couple of releases,
> ie. once a year.
>
> Since Dennis Gilmore has written this rebuild script already, why
> don't we run the script more or less continuously?  Obviously we could
> pace the builds so they happen for each package about once a month and
> don't overload Koji.
>
> Then we track packages that don't build, say, 3 times in a row, and
> file FTBFS bugs for them and after that prioritize fixing them or kick
> them out of the distro.
>
> Rich.
>

Matt Domsch used to do this on the side, which is the right way to do 
it.  If he's not doing it anymore, I would urge some concerned 
contributor to help setup the infrastructure to do it again.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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