[Libreoffice-qa] Minutes of ESC call: 2014-10-16

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:47:30AM +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> Would not the best thing to do be to do bibisect builds on the
> release baseline, as is done for the TDF builds?  That way, the
> builds should work on as many machines as possible.

As discussed explicitly in the call: I have no time at all for that, you are
free to volunteer.

Right now, I plan to do the alpha1 bibisect build to keep Robinsons backs free
for the Bugzilla migration. Robinson will then take over for the beta/branchoff
builds of bibisect, and if you think its worth setting up a baseline chroot for
the bibisects then, that might be an option (possibly redoing the stuff I build
on that baseline).

Then again, as per:

 https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/HowToBibisect#Manual_setup_.28download_a_tarball.29

there are currently _no_ reports of recent build being not universal.

Michael Stahl once ranted about the old LibreOffice 3.5 build as they linked
against a system libjpeg, but that was never affected the build after that. If
anyone is volunteering to rebuild LibreOffice 3.5 without libjpeg, you are
invited as Michael never did that[1]. ;)

Best,

Bjoern

[1] Which is even somewhat understandable, given the quality of our build back
    then, needing hotpatching like this:
    https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=dev-tools.git;a=blobdiff;f=bibisect/build.sh;h=42427226aaa73b4764d0181f5c40aa4105809b67;hp=831436cc138737a88647893e29af20ecd4477731;hb=80e0a38aae8ed422e8c4350ef3a234bc92f504fb;hpb=f6bdfcfce464f40e51a8c1ff7aca9b08a93f4cb8