[Mageia-dev] backports

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le lundi 25 juillet 2011 21:47:24, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> with regards to backports, users are complaining (they always do) that
> backports are taking too long.
> 
> on the one hand almost everyone seems to agree that backports should be
> "supported" in some way or another... however, noone seems to want to
> actuallty put in the time to finalize that. (or at least that's how I see
> it)
> 
> Since afair there is no real consensus, i suggest one of the following
> options, or possibly make this a vote, or have packaging team leaders (or
> board) decide this:
> 
> A. backports are maintainers responsibility
> 
> Every backport is tested or untested by maintainers discretion, (s)he
> decides how much testing it needs. We could still make a policy that there
> should be some tests.
> 
> B. well established support like updates
> 
> Similar QA like updates.
> 
> 
> then there is the matter of submission:
> 
> A. We submit all backports from cauldron
> 
> B. like updates, there's a separate section for backports
> 
> C. backport submission is only allowed from the separate section, not from
> cauldron, if you want to backports from cauldron, you need to make the
> necessary steps yourself.
> 
> 
> personally, i favor B & C; such as i think most of the people wanted; but
> if wanted, i can settle for A & B.
> 
> If someone from -sysadmin can find the time to make the SVN repos for
> backports (and testing), that would be awesome, so we can actually do some
> testing for it and get this show on the road.
> 
> 
> Maarten (aka AL13N)
> 
> PS: i specifically left out updates to backports, as i personally feel that
> it's a backport, it just gets a newer release or version.

1B and 2C for me, but I'm summarizing a more detailed proposal from the 
previous discussion + discussion with misc on IRC, which I hope we will adopt.

Samuel