[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Fri Oct 8 17:30:42 CEST 2010

Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 11:14 -0400, Greg Harris a écrit :
+>
+>    
+>> I certainly agree, and mean no disrespect to you and other maintainers
+>> who generously contribute their time and energy. But the Mandriva
+>> implementation of backports is not a solution for those who want a
+>> continuously updated distro. It works for me and I appreciate that it's
+>> there. But if you are going to design a new and appealing alternative,
+>> the effort required to make backports really known and useful needs to
+>> be taken into account.
+>>      
+> Well, that's a long running task. First, we have added meta data to
+> repository so we could design a better interface for the software ( ie,
+> how to detect that a packages is a backport and how to see a software is
+> a update, a test update, or something else ), then we need to implement
+> the soft, etc.
+>
+> You spoke of having backport by default. We used to do it, but too much
+> people faced issue and complained. So we 1) said the truth, aka backport
+> didn't have the same rigorous testing 2) disabled it by default.
+>
+> Now, if things change ( ie, if we have a process with more QA ), we can
+> change again.
+>    
+Backports are definitely an area needing improvement.  Firstly, it is a 
+bit awkward - especially with the waiting for Rpmdrake to process - to 
+temporarily access backports.
+And when I have, most of the time what I was interested in was not as up 
+to date as the developper's site, if there was a backport for the 
+application (or type of application) in question.
+Luckily, being a programmer, it is not problematic for me to compile and 
+create menu entries, etc, if necessary.  But that doesn't help ordinary 
+users of (now) Mageia.
+So I intend to become more involved with backports - and trying to 
+improve Rpmdrake and other tools.
+(If only Perl were a little easier/ more like other languages, I would 
+have already done more.)
+So Mageia is pushing me to contribute more actively - hopefully others 
+as well.
+
+- André (andre999)
+
+