[Mageia-dev] Mirror tree structure

Fri Oct 22 07:33:59 CEST 2010

On 21 October 2010 22:48, Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+> * Samuel Verschelde (stormi at laposte.net) wrote:
+>> Le jeudi 21 octobre 2010 00:44:16, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+>> > In a nutshell: this must be discuss. Having a people is at time just an
+>> > idea, but it solve a need I had in mandriva to provide some rpms for
+>> > testing purpose.
+>>
+>> I don't understand very well what kind of packages would go into "people" rather than in dedicated testing media. What would be the difference ?
+>
+> I can give the example I had on Mandriva: I did some work on 'rpm'
+> package itself, but since breaking this pakage would have lock the whole
+> Bs I'd prefer to first have it tested by some people.
+> This directory is in this case the perfect place. At this time,
+> "testing" media did not exists thought.
+>
+> Another example could be the XFCE live Cd done by some people in past,
+> hosted on distrib-coffee as mandriva where not able to push it on thier
+> mirror (this issue get solved latelly).
+>
+> Pushing something on the mageia Mirror need some control. The people
+> place give the opportunity to contributors to distribute somethings w/o
+> needing "super user" privileges, but with a clear "unofficial" state.
+>
+> I am pretty sure some people will find usage to it.
+>
+>>
+>> Regards
+>>
+>> Samuel Verschelde
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+> Olivier Thauvin
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+
+Adding to what Nanar said, the way I see it, the stuff in people/ are
+like the stuff we put in http://kenobi.mandriva.com/~contributor-name
+sometimes; i.e. rpm packages to test (e.g. during cooker freeze before
+asking for a push request on maintainers@)... etc. Just it'll be a bit
+of a bigger place AND it won't put a load on the build clusters
+themselves rather the load will be on mirrors, which is good IMHO.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+