Re: status update

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

One thing that Daniel mentioned to me which is a downside, is that certain
people (*cough* Jason *cough*) have this nasty habbit of commiting their
code about once a month. Forcing people to commit their code to test it,
does have the nice side effect that they can't get away with this anymore.



On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:

> Personally - I think the developer box-in-a-box is a grand idea.  
> 
> On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 09:18:07AM -0800, Aaron Turner wrote:
> > 
> > (me trying to do these to set a good example)
> > 
> > - Working on Devel documentation- specifically how to create a copy of
> > dev.linuxkb.org on your system at home to aid in development.  Started
> > writing scripts to automate this 4+ hour task to something more
> > manageable.
> > 
> > - LBF bug hunting.  Damn, I thought it worked, and now it don't.  Sux
> > 
> > - Search.pm.  No updates.
> > 
> > I'm interested in hearing from everyone if it would be worthwhile for me
> > to spend 10 hours or so creating a "developer box in a box" tarball.
> > Basically you download a 30MB tarball (or so), and run ./install.sh and 10
> > minutes later you've got a fully functional development system.  The other
> > two options are:
> > 
> > 1) Code at home, but to test your code you have to commit/webupdate.
> > 
> > 2) Download 30MB's of source from various websites, and then follow a
> > lengthy document which tells you how to compile and install everything.
> > 
> > --
> > Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
> > Linux Knowledge Base Organization  http://linuxkb.org/
> > Because world domination requires quality open documentation.
> 
> -- 
> Jason
> http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~chardros
> 

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Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
Linux Knowledge Base Organization  http://linuxkb.org/
Because world domination requires quality open documentation.