Hi, Am Dienstag, den 08.04.2014, 08:03 +0000 schrieb Simon Peyton Jones:
So we have willing horsepower. But the moment we lack leadership. Alain rightly says "I don't know what the process is" because we don't *have* a process. We need a mechanism for creating a process, taking decisions, etc.
we also need a culture of just doing stuff, and less asking for it. In Debian it works likes this: Someone has an idea (continuous integration), does it and tells the mailing list about it. Then people tell you that it’s great, or how it could be greater. If it works out, eventually it comes an official service, whatever that means. So in this case (independent of any committee or process): Páli, you have starting running some builder infrastructure. Great! Just keep doing it! And if you want people to join their builders, tell them what information you need from them and add them. Feel free to modify the wiki so that people find you. Make up some rules (about usernames etc.) as you go, if necessary. In essence what you said in
However, my efforts has not been "blessed" and I am not sure if there are at least plans to make the builders part of the official haskell.org infrastructure. Either way it goes, I can update the corresponding wiki page with my contact information and start accommodation further clients until the fate of the service is decided, if there will not be any objections in the next few days.
but without waiting for objections. Just do it. And tell us about your achievements. Also worry less about official or not. The Travis setup is not official, but (IMHO) has been useful quite a few times. I’d _like_ it to be official, i.e. hosted on git.haskell.org, but that is not important. If your service becomes “critical” in some sense it is still time to move it some official infrastructure... but that can come second, and should not hinder anyone from contributing. Greetings, and thanks for your contributions, Joachim -- Joachim “nomeata” Breitner mail@joachim-breitner.de • http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Jabber: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de • GPG-Key: 0x4743206C Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org