[ITK Community] Debian builds of ITK for non-x84/amd64 architectures

[Steve M. Robbins]

Hello Matt,

On November 6, 2013 05:43:37 PM Matt McCormick wrote:

> Jean-Christophe noted this bug [1] at the CTK hackfest, which is
> blocking CTK for other architectures.  Is it possible to get some of
> these architectures reporting nightly builds [2] to the ITK software
> quality dashboard [3], so they can be cleaned up?

It's a great idea in principle for all the debian architectures to submit to 
the ITK dashboard -- and now that we're down to just two, we do have full 
coverage!  :-)

If we want better coverage, the hard truth is that we need more volunteers and 
on a sustained basis.  

As Dominique mentioned, policy for the official build daemon machines forbids 
network access from the build.  So, a while back, I asked around for some 
other machines to use for nightly builds.  I got a couple of offers of a login, 
but I lacked the time to set up and maintain the nightly.

The other hard truth is that having a nightly build is not enough.  Each 
architecture needs a champion who will investigate the failures, do extra 
testing or develop patches.  The ITK community won't do it on their own.  Even 
with a nightly build submitted to cdash.

I'm willing to help out with advice but I simply lack the time to do very much 
follow-up for non-mainstream architectures.  Truthfully, I don't have much 
time even for amd64 so more blood for Debian packaging would be welcome!

Cheers,
-Steve
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