[Mageia-dev] backports

Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes at gmail.com
Mon Jul 25 23:38:32 CEST 2011


Op maandag 25 juli 2011 22:18:59 schreef 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

Excellent, thanks


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