build.gnome.org used to have auto builders for jhbuild. The problem is that jhbuild building requires maintenance. Everyone I've talked to said that after a few months of trying to have a jhbuild autobuilder, they gave up.
In my opinion, the way to fix this is to make jhbuild more like Continuous. Have it read from the same manifest JSON format so that when Continuous gets fixed, so do jhbuilds. Have it work automatically in a similar way behind the scenes and "require less maintenance". And perhaps, when possible, use poor prebuilt binaries from Continuous or xdg-app.
On Mon, 2015-07-20 at 19:11 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 1) Hacking on system components that require hardware access (kernel
> drivers, NetworkManager)
> 2) Hacking on system components that don't inherently require
> hardware access (kernel filesystems, systemd, polkit, gdm)
> 3) Hacking on session level components (gnome-session, gnome-shell,
> gnome-settings-daemon), and the libraries they use (gnome-desktop,
> clutter)
> 4) Hacking on libraries (gtk+)
> 5) Hacking on applications
>
> Which ones of these do you do? How do you do it? Is 'jhbuild run'
> sufficient for your needs?
I do 4 and 5 with 'jhbuild build' et. al. and 'jhbuild run'.
> Do you log into a jhbuild session? as yourself? as a test user?
I used to do 3 on rare occasions, but stopped doing that because I no
longer remember how I ever managed to run a GNOME session under jhbuild
in the past. There used to be instructions on the wiki, but they got
deleted at some point because they became outdated. The problems I
wanted to fix were never so urgent as to convince me to impel me to
figure it out on my own. Pretty sure new contributors have no chance
here.
> Do you replace system level components? With 'make install'? By
> building packages? Do you use gnome-continuous?
I've replaced system level components with 'make install' when I found
no other way to test a search provider. That displeased me.
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