Re: yelp performance (Re: Successor to DocBook)

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

hi,

Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 18:41 +0100, Don Scorgie wrote:
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 09:53 +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
> >
> > > Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> writes:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > But not again during the scrollkeeper registration time ;)  "make
> > > distcheck" is good enough, but developers have to get used to this
> > > target.
> >
> > There should be a fundamental rule of GNOME that a package must pass a
> > make distcheck before it can be considered for distribution.  If
> > something doesn't pass, it should be considered a bug, a report filed
> > and an older package used.
>
>
> Every single piece of maintainer documentation I know of says
> to build your tarballs with distcheck.  I don't roll tarballs
> with the dist target, and neither should anybody else.
>
> On multiple occasions, I've found non-valid DocBook files in
> rolled tarballs.  So clearly, there are people making tarballs
> with just dist.  Maybe the release team should run distcheck,
> and refuse tarballs (loudly and publicly, on d-d-l) that don't
> pass.

help is on its way:
http://live.gnome.org/BuildBrigade

It works nicely for the gstreamer project already.

Stefan