From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: vince@kyllikki.org (Vincent Sanders) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 14:53:23 +0000 Subject: Error for machine_is_m28evk In-Reply-To: <20111108140557.GC10538@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> References: <4EB8CC7B.5060503@denx.de> <20111108075349.GK2854@pengutronix.de> <20111108085350.GX12913@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20111108125346.GA7563@S2100-06.ap.freescale.net> <20111108133744.GE12913@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20111108140557.GC10538@mudshark.cambridge.arm.com> Message-ID: <20111108145322.GE856@kyllikki.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 02:05:58PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 01:37:44PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > (b) with the loss of facilities like kautobuild (no one noticed for six > > months that simtec had shut it down...), we have lost any kind of > > automated detection for these kinds of issues. > > Have Simtec /actually/ shut this down, or did it just die when kernel.org > was hacked and nobody has poked it since then? > > The website is still up and doesn't seem to mention its demise: > > http://armlinux.simtec.co.uk/kautobuild/ > > Will Simtec never really owned this it was more they sponsored the server space and my time to run it. My employer have been very good and were willing to keep paying for it but in the end it was my decision to shut it down. I posted the five year review some time ago and except for several fairly abusive mails including that I should stop upsetting developers by showing when things failed and several more *demands* that I implemented additional features I received no feedback. With the notable exception of Russell who was supportive. As there were a grand total of four people subscribed to the results list and the number of pageviews per month was under the hundred mark I simply stopped the cron jobs in May and turned it off. I figured if anyone really cared they would shout. No one noticed until Russell mentioned it on IRC the other day so I am fairly sure that me compiling 200+ default configs two or three times a day was completely pointless as no one was looking at the results. Even the yearly reports I wrote seemed to upset more people than they helped. My point of view is that the ARM "community" and the majority of maintainers only care about the SoC and board they are working on right that moment and once it is in mainline (well for a long time that read "once the patches were posted to the mailing list") it can be abandoned to Russell and janitors like myself. There were of course always exceptions to the rule and I know there is great effort to improve the situation now. However it seems to me that kautobuild providing build coverage was simply not useful in those efforts. I continue to provide list moderation and work in other areas of ARM Linux but I do not think my time was best spent maintaining (at not inconsiderable personal expense) the kautobuilder system, -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 190 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: