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How many users know that latest +</I>><i> > versions for wine, wesnoth (one of the best opensource games), vlc, and +</I>><i> > many other packages are already available in backports media for mandriva +</I>><i> > ? Today there is a changelog mailing list, but this is not for everyone. +</I>><i> > This would be more user-centric than packager-centric. I tried to improve +</I>><i> > backports visibility on the Mandriva forum, but without any automation it +</I>><i> > took an enormous amount of time to maintain : +</I>><i> > <A HREF="http://forum.mandriva.com/viewforum.php?f=123">http://forum.mandriva.com/viewforum.php?f=123</A> (see threads beginning with +</I>><i> > "New Soft" or "Backport") +</I>><i> +</I>><i> RSS feed or use of twitter by build system may be useful .... +</I> +Youri already have RSS, afaik. +<A HREF="http://www.zarb.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/youri/soft/submit/trunk/lib/Youri/Submit/Step/Action/RSS.pm?revision=2100&view=markup">http://www.zarb.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/youri/soft/submit/trunk/lib/Youri/Submit/Step/Action/RSS.pm?revision=2100&view=markup</A> + +Twitter/statusnet could be easy to add , according to +<A HREF="http://status.net/wiki/Libraries">http://status.net/wiki/Libraries</A> , this would quite trivial + +I even think that a plugin to post on a forum could be done. A little +bit less trivial, but I am ok to work on it, once everything we have is +running. + +><i> > - (the biggest part, but the one with most long term benefits I hope) add +</I>><i> > metadata to media to make urpmi more media-aware. Today, rpmdrake detects +</I>><i> > backports because the backports media have "backports" in their name. +</I>><i> > That's a (useful) hack, but we could do better. One solution could be to +</I>><i> > give metadata to each media : * release vs updates vs backports +</I>><i> > * testing vs stable +</I>><i> > * debug vs non-debug +</I>><i> > Combination of these "tags" would give the following media : +</I>><i> > * main release (just like today's media) +</I>><i> > * main updates +</I>><i> > * main updates testing : for update candidates, this is our current +</I>><i> > "main testing" media * main backports +</I>><i> > * main backports testing : for backports candidates (as someone who +</I>><i> > frequently does backports, I sometimes feel the lack for it) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> As long as it doesn't take the focus off the development release. In Mandriva, +</I>><i> I think there were some uploads to backports before the upload to cooker, +</I>><i> which can cause problems for users if not corrected. +</I> +We have solved the problem at PLF by forcing build to appear in cooker +first. It is just a youri plugin. + + +-- +Michael Scherer + +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000880.html">[Mageia-dev] Various proposals around backports and other media management +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000891.html">[Mageia-dev] Various proposals around backports and other media management +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#883">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#883">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#883">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#883">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |