[Libreoffice-qa] Annouce: Bibisect for MACOSX

[Norbert Thiebaud]

On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Robinson Tryon
<bishop.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Norbert Thiebaud <nthiebaud at gmail.com> wrote:
>> my intention is....
>> have some tb upload tar.gz installation regularely in a dumping zone
>> per platform
>> have a cron to regularely.. scrupt these upload zone(*) and
>> consolidate things in a bibisect repo
>
> Why not have the tb push builds directly into the bibisect repo?
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/tb#Variables

because...

1/ keeping a local bibisect repo on each tb would be expensive in, if
nothing else,  bandwidth
2/ multiple tb upload stuff.. synchronizing htem can be difficult,
especially with wide variation in upload bandwidth
3/ the order of commit in the bibisect matter.
4/ experience shows that somethings things break for some minor
details.. being able to fix things an recover using staged build is
useful
5/ having some kind of control over the bibisect buidling as it build
is good. it is easier to do when a centralized script do the job..
then one can review the log and decide to re-do thing if need be,
before the problem is buried too deep.