Re: Cleanup / janitors

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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On 16-02-10 09:39, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> 2010/2/16 Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>:
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>> On 16-02-10 00:38, Chris Larson wrote:
>>> Greetings all,
>>>
>>> Per discussion in the TSC meeting this month, I'm sending out this email as
>>> a probe.  Would anyone on the list benefit from a "janitors" type project,
>>> to outline and document specific cleanup tasks and how they should be done?
>>> There are many tasks that need doing which involve editing of large amounts
>>> of files in relatively simple ways, and I suspect, but am not yet certain,
>>> that there are a group of individuals who wish to contribute to the project,
>>> but are new enough that they don't feel confident diving into anything
>>> invasive.  This sort of a task could be a starting point for that sort of
>>> individual.  Thoughts?  Anyone out there in that camp currently that would
>>> benefit from something like this?
>>
>> The first project that comes to mind is converting simple recipes (e.g.
>> not perl) to new style staging. It's a fairly simple job that has a huge
>> impact.
> 
> Problem is to do that reliable.
> It is easy to remove the do_stage section from a recipe, and it is
> easy to verify that it builds, but it is already becoming less trivial
> to verify that everything that depends on it builds too,

A simpile first step is:

1) build recipe
2) bump PR
3) fix staging
4) build recipe
5) diff the 2 packaged-staging recipes

If the result of 4) is a superset of 1) then you most likely did the
right thing.

regards,

Koen
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