Re: somebody needs to run staging before 29 Jan

[address@hidden]

On Jan 29, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Phil Holmes wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 2:34 PM
> Subject: Re: somebody needs to run staging before 29 Jan
> 
> 
>> James <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> On 24 January 2012 22:20, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Janek Warchoł <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>>> Keeping the staging-merge going would be about five people
>>>>>> committing to 50€ a month. That is, of course, not enough for me to
>>>>>> live on. It merely means that taking on this duty will not further
>>>>>> reduce the amount of time I can spend on LilyPond in total.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That would be a waste of your skills.
>>>> 
>>>> The skills will eventually become unavailable anyway if nobody pays for
>>>> either major or minor variants of them, so that should be the smallest
>>>> worry. I have not offered to do it for free, anyway. If the time I
>>>> spend on that is paid for, it is no loss to anybody.
>>>> 
>>>>> I don't have a 24/7 computer,
>>>> 
>>>> Neither is a laptop, but I'd still get some stuff done.
>>>> 
>>>>> but if no one else will volunteer i can run Patchy (the skills
>>>>> necessary are quite like mine). I only need to pass my exams - 9 days
>>>>> left till i have lots of time to investigate and improve Patchy (with
>>>>> Julien's help).
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have a machine that I can keep running 24/7 (well I have electricity
>>> 24/7, Internet connection probably about 20/7) and have already
>>> offered (and been trying) to run patchy but with limited success this
>>> week.
>> 
>> Patchy has been running for about 6 hours on my laptop trying to get the
>> current staging (which is one trivial commit ahead of master) checked.
>> And is still on it.  It bogs down development use to a crawl.  At least
>> with this (the quite old laptop, about 1Ghz single core, since the last
>> laptop died on me) this is not a serious option for LilyPond
>> development.  Even when the replacement laptop arrives, it will not be
>> much of an option if development is to continue.  I might see whether I
>> manage to get the laptop with the dead screen working remotely, but I
>> doubt it will take less than 4 hours for a patchy run.
>> 
>> So seriously: this needs to move to a different computer if LilyPond
>> development is of concern to you all.
>> 
>> -- 
>> David Kastrup
> 
> 
> I'm in the middle of revising for my main exam on Monday 30th.  I'll have far 
> more free time next week, then 2 weeks off the following weeks.  I'll try to 
> work out what needs doing on Tuesday.
> 
> Does patchy just run make and make test, or does it do make doc as well?
> 
> As you know, David, my Unix and git skills are close to zero, so it might be 
> a good use of your time (or someone else who can do this) to write an idiot's 
> guide to patchy - that might mean I can get up and running in less than a 
> day.  I'd be happy to CG-ise these later.
> 

I've gotten in touch with the Univesrity of Paris VIII to see if they can host 
(a) Patchy.  I'll keep all ya'll posted.

Cheers,
MS