Suggestion: Continuous mass rebuild

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Jesse Keating wrote:

> 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.

There's been a lot of work to make it so we can do it ourselves. If anyone 
wants to help out on it I can point you to what we built. Until we get the 
new hw active we will be limited on where we can run, though.

-sv