Build Master: Scheduling II

[Martin Nowak]

On Thursday, 5 December 2013 at 07:58:10 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> * Not a single person need to have all different platforms to 
> create a release
>
We'll need to move to building linux distribution specific build 
to fix issues with shared library dependencies, so it's even more 
platforms.

> * We don't need to rely on someone else to build packages for a 
> given platform. He/she may be away for a few days and suddenly 
> we can't get a release for a given platform
>
Automation is definitely a good solution.

> * It's reproducible. We're creating the release on the same 
> machines every time
>
I think a good solution would be to prepare clean virtualbox 
images that are used for building.