David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> writes:
For those with limited access to multiple platforms it can be
difficult to test package changes and updates.
There also appear to be quite a few people with machines (not under
TNF control) with which they would like to assist pkgsrc. While these
machines may not be usable for building official binaries, they can be
used to help testing.
That's all true, but we also have a mechanism already, which is that
when changes have a high value of "odds of breaking * pain of breakage",
patches can be sent to tech-pkg for review, and proposed changes can be
staged in wip to ask people to test. This happens a fair bit.
While your proposal for semi-automated CI might help, I think the real
issue is not realizing that changes are dangerous (in this case) and
people not accepting the group norm of the obligation of non-breakage
[q(in other cases).