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[Mojca Miklavec]

On 7 May 2017 at 23:12, Clemens Lang wrote:
>
> We also used to have a short introduction
> round on MacPorts base in the last years. Since Zero King isn't working
> on base, this probably makes sense for Umesh

While he's not working directly on base, writing the buildbot setup
still required some intimacy with Tcl internals (mpbb) and I would say
that knowing a bit more about the base and being able to write simple
stuff in Tcl using existing functions would greatly benefit Zero King
as well. Both in the course of the project (in order to not reinvent
the wheel with external tools for something that could be achieved in
three lines of code with Tcl), but also in the future.

My suggestion would be to spend at least a tiny bit of time getting to
know the base / Tcl and trying to get a grasp of how exactly our
buildbot setup works. None of that includes the requirement to
actually change anything in the base or in the buildbot, but it could
give some ideas how to do a certain thing in the Travis setup, or
maybe lead to ideas what could be improved at the buildbot site later
and how (based on experience gained at Travis). That means: instead of
spending the community bonding period learning how our bugtracking
works, going slightly more in depth with other code and tools.

Just my thoughts.

(I can explain the details of the existing build infrastructure.)

Mojca