[Releasing] Duplication of packaging effort

[marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com]

On 14/08/2012 01:35, ext Turunen Tuukka wrote:
> On 14.8.2012 5.46, "jason.mcdonald at nokia.com"
> <jason.mcdonald at nokia.com> wrote:
>> I can't see how this duplication of effort is helping us to reach
>> the Qt5 Beta milestone any quicker (actually quite the opposite
>> given how few people there seem to be involved with Qt5 packaging),
>> and we need to get to that milestone before anyone has time to
>> re-house or make radical changes to the CI infrastructure.
>> Therefore, we should either
>>
>> 1) Make both systems generate packages using exactly the same
>> scripts, configurations and environments (i.e., use copies of the
>> same VM's), or
>>
>> 2) Choose one set of packages, test only those, and shut down the
>> other system because nobody will be doing anything useful with its
>> output.
>
> My preference for #2 - unless we suddenly get a lot more resources to
> do the testing we would be better off with just one set.

Ok, let's go for #2 right now, and focus on the packages being generated 
from the Digia setup right now, until we have the Beta, and possibly the 
final out.

However, I still maintain that we _need_ to make this system use the 
public CI system setup, and it's the only way we can get collaboration 
on HW platform support.

As we intend to distribute CI to multiple interested parties, we need to 
do exactly the same for installer creation and packaging.

But for now let's focus our resources on one set of results.

-- 
.marius