Re: Proposal to add a QNX 6.5 port to PostgreSQL

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 2014-07-28 11:19:48 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>> Maybe step #1 is to get a buildfarm member set up.  Is there any
>> policy against unsupported environments in the buildfarm? (I hope not)
>>
>> You're going to have to run it against a git repository containing
>> your custom patches.  It's a long and uncertain road to getting a new
>> port (re-) accepted, but demonstrated commitment to support is a
>> necessary first step. It will also advertise support for the platform.
>
> I don't think a buildfarm animal that doesn't run the actual upstream
> code is a good idea. That'll make it a lot harder to understand what's
> going on when something breaks after a commit.  It'd also require the
> custom patches being rebased ontop of $branch before every run...

hm. oh well.  maybe if there was a separate page for custom builds
(basically, an unsupported section).

merlin