On 6/26/19 5:47 PM, Matthew Donadio wrote:
would you entertain any help for build automation for releases and/or development nightlies that would be hosted there to offload some of the manual work you do? Or if one of us maintained a fork on GitHub or BitBucket that did this (only mentioning BB because I am more comfortable with their automation)?
Something like that might be helpful. However, I've been reluctant to do this myself, partly because I think it would make for more work for me (not less), and partly due to licensing concerns: the GitHub platform (as opposed to Git itself) is closed source, and tzdb development should require only portable tools that are freely available so I would rather not rely on GitHub-specific automation. One possibility is to do build automation on some platform that is not closed-source; I don't know whether BitBucket has similar issues. At any rate I wouldn't let any of this stop you; if you can easily build something downstream on BitBucket, that would be a useful resource I'd think, even if it's not part of tzdb proper.