[linux-distros-dev] eclipse-build sub-project

[Ben Konrath <bkonrath@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

There was some talk at the IRC meeting of making an eclipse-build
similar to the ooo-build that's in hosted at gnome.org. I let the idea
stew for a little bit and I think that it would be very beneficial.

I'd like to get an idea of how people think we should proceed and what
kind of features we want. Here's a brain dump of my initial thoughts:

* build technology / language to use: shell? python? something 
  else?
* patch selection: do we check in all our patches and have a conf file 
  to select the patches we want? or another way?
* how we deal with the seamokey vs. mozilla vs. firefox dep.
* FHS compliance: Fedora/Red Hat packages need this, but is everybody 
  else interested in this? If not, we need the ability to turn this on 
  and off
* do we want consistent package names and contents?
* do we want to provide official releases that we can reference as an 
  upstream download or just use cvs snapshots?
* anything else?

I don't mind starting this project off by transferring the build we do
in Fedora to seed the project. But, I don't want this to become a Red
Hat only thing so I'm totally willing to compromise where necessary and
patch within the Fedora or Red Hat builds if need be. I also want
everyone to be a part of this build project so that the people who
maintain packages for any distro should feel comfortable committing to
the project. The whole point of this would be to save us all work and
let us co-maintain a set of standard Linux (maybe even Unix) Eclipse
build scripts.

Thanks everyone, I'm looking forward to your comments.

Ben