Re: Trouble trying to compile apache2

[Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 03:37:00PM +0000, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 16/02/2022 10:40, Adam Dinwoodie wrote:
> > <snip>
> > Inevitably a bunch of other maintainers will have their own way of doing
> > things; I think Scallywag is the closest thing we have to a common CI/CD
> > setup.  But hopefully some of this might give you pointers to CI/CD
> > tools that require minimal setup and won't even cost you time on your
> > own build servers.  Or, at the very least, ideas about what you'll need
> > to do for your own automation.
> 
> I have no great attachment to the current system.  It saves me a bit of time
> maintaining my packages, and might be of some benefit to others.
> 
> Long-term, the ambition would be to stop maintainers uploading locally built
> packages, because that's not a good idea.
> 
> If you have ideas on improvements which could benefit all package
> maintainers (or even everyone who wants to try to build cygwin packages),
> and would like to work on that, let me know and I'll sort out access to
> sourceware for you.

I'm definitely interested!  This sounds like the sort of thing I'd think
is a fun time.  I don't think I can commit to doing anything on any
particular time frame, but I think I'd enjoy working on that sort of
infrastructure project and I'd be very glad to contribute.