<snip> > As I alluded to before while these things are certainly possible the sheer > size of TDE (well over 150 separate GIT repositories) tends to make > temporary anything impractical--I spend more time setting it up, managing > it, and tearing it down than any time saved in between. > > There are limits to what I can do with the build farm due to Debian > requiring monotonically increasing version numbers. Likely there would > need to be a separate R14 PPA that tracks the "master" of the R14 branch; > this is not feasible at this time due to the sheer size of the R14 archive > and paucity of financial support. Look at it this way--if we started > doing things like this (multiple 30GB PPAs of the same project at slightly > different code revisions) on the free public Launchpad system we would be > restricted very rapidly if not kicked off entirely. PPAs on Launchpad are > only 2GB in size for a reason--it gets very expensive very fast to scale > out, and no one is directly paying for the space they use in Launchpad. > Same applies here. :-) > > I am working on the new site right now, so I probably won't be tracking > this discussion closely. I'll come back to it once RC1 is out, so please > don't finalize anything in my absence. > Yeap, no problem Tim. As I said, mine was just an idea since I don't have knowledge of how the primary nightly build site works internally. Cheers Michele