How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success

Re:How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success by digi_owl on Saturday September 02, 2017 @12:53PM (#15156977)

More and more it feels that self-compiling is not a considered usage for large projects. Instead if you compile at all, you do so as part of a distro maintenance team. And thus should be on all the relevant mailing lists and irc channels, and keeping notes.

At least that is how it feels to me after having spent some years using a distro that is a fair bit more hands on than most.

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Re:How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success by TheAceOfHearts on Saturday September 02, 2017 @01:18PM (#15157115)

This is definitely relatable. I've lost interest in many projects after wasting hours trying to get things to compile.

The worst offender I've encountered has been android. The initial checkout is like +100GB, and it has incredibly poor fault tolerance. Based on my experience, it fails regularly at random points, requiring you to re-fetch everything. Despite multi-day efforts, I've never managed to build a ROM for my Nexus 5X or Pixel.

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Re:How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success by JosephLark on Saturday September 02, 2017 @01:17PM (#15157113)

What about development? You need to be able to compile to test feature implementation and bug fixes.

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Re:How you can contribute to Firefox 57 success by digi_owl on Saturday September 02, 2017 @01:18PM (#15157118)

Nightly automated builds...

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