gnome-build service (GNOME tinderbox)

[Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>]

Hi,

Today I read on planet gnome that Kjartan Maas fixed some build problems 
which he discovered when running jhbuild.

Last year for a couple of months there was the automatic gnome build 
being done by Luis Villa. Unfortunately that machine broke down. IMHO it 
would be a very good idea to restore that service because of:

1) broken builds are now discovered later. Therefore quite some 
developers loose hacking time because one of the modules they need 
doesn't build

2) Having a tinderbox makes sure that the tree is more often completely 
buildable. This makes life for new contributors a lot more easy. (I 
remember struggling a lot in the beginning with getting things to build 
with jhbuild, because I didn't know if I was doing something wrong or 
did not have the right tools installed or that the build was broken)

Main conclusion is that having a tinderbox just saves a lot of time 
which can be used for hacking instead.

I can't imagine that one of the companies supporting GNOME cannot donate 
a machine for doing the daily build.

Regards,

Jaap