Dev-Environment with Vagrant/VirtualBox?

[Michael Stahl]

On 16/11/13 20:57, bjoern wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 08:37:51PM +0100, Michael Stahl wrote:
>> also, a build will get outdated pretty soon anyway... what would be the
>> benefit of a 2 month old build today with 4000 extra commits on master?
> 
> A first committer would most likely push a small patch to gerrit -- where most
> of those can be easily rebased. We are talking about the first onboarding task,
> someone using this wont start out with rewriting the Writer core, rather e.g.
> covert one dialog to new style UI. This would work perfectly for those guys.
> 
> That said, yes, this would need to be updated and rebuild regularly (e.g. once
> a month) in an automated way.

on the other hand, if the newbies do the build themselves they will get
a sense of having achieved something.  which we can of course help by
only releasing image with a git repo at a revision that does in fact
build ;)