[Reproducible-builds] Usefulness of periodic reproducible builds e-mails

[Markus Koschany]

Am 29.09.2015 um 16:48 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg:
> Le 29/09/2015 16:32, Markus Koschany a écrit :
[...]
> I agree the false positive are annoying, but this is understandable
> since the system is still in development (the recent addition of
> disorderfs caused some troubles for example). Fortunately the
> reproducible builds team is very reactive and the issues are solved
> quickly. I expect the notifications to stabilize progressively.

I understand that everything is still in development. However I don't
think a public mailing list is a suitable testbed. My preferred solution
would be to make receiving such e-mails opt-in. Everyone who wants to
get informed by e-mail may subscribe to this feature. I personally
prefer and regularly check DDPO because it is quite, very informative
and can be used on demand. The only other option I can think of is to
filter pkg-java mails.

>> The reports would be most useful if they included only confirmed FTBFS
>> in testing. I know detecting FTBFS is only a by-product of the
>> reproducible build effort but those bugs are the most interesting ones
>> for us.
> 
> Actually I tend to prefer the reports in unstable. The reports in
> testing are often duplicates of issues already known in unstable, and
> sometimes they are already fixed in unstable when they are notified in
> testing. If we were to keep the reports for only suite I'd prefer the
> unstable reports since it gives a faster feedback on our work.

Ok. I could live with unstable as well as long as we agree on one
distribution.

Markus


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