[Mageia-dev] sync with mandriva

Mon Nov 8 14:27:38 CET 2010

Le lundi 08 novembre 2010 à 13:46 +0100, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
+> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:46, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > On 8 November 2010 13:41, Bruno Cornec <Bruno.Cornec at hp.com> wrote:
+> >> Michael Scherer said on Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 12:37:44PM +0100:
+> >>> Well, a flat or a directory like structure for perf reason, yes. But it
+> >>> was discussed some years ago on maintainers@, and so I think this was
+> >>> raised as well, except that I do not remind the outcome. Spuk did the
+> >>> work, so you need to ask him.
+> >>
+> >> Well, I thought that a new distro could afford discussing again some of
+> >> the choices that have prooved to be problematic in the past thus my msg.
+> >> I'm not sure that history is so important that opinion of people who
+> >> will manage that in the future.
+> >
+> > IIUC, history in this contest means "the reasoning behind
+> > rejecting/accepting it", i.e. instead of doing the research from
+> > scratch we can take it from where it ended the last time it was
+> > discussed and re-evaluate the pros and cons.
+> 
+> Right, but again, is there a doc or a pointer to that? Because a
+> "remembered point of view" holds for nothing. Thank you Google, here
+> it is: http://lists.mandriva.com/maintainers/2007-12/msg00198.php .
+> 
+> Either way we are going, it should be at least documented and (a
+> little bit) argumented, especially if it get debatable.
+
+When I was tasked with blino and boklm ( or teuf ) to take care of this
+part, we were told that the priority was to have something soon so we
+can have a iso out in less than 6 months, so
+1) we are not seen as vaporware
+2) group other than packagers are able to start their work.
+3) the full process of doing a release can be validated and documented
+before being changed
+
+We can of course rediscuss the build system before deploying ( last
+time, it took something like 2 months ) and then wait on people sending
+patchs ( last time, it also took a lots of time, proof is that mdv still
+use the old BS ).
+
+Or we can simply deploy what we have, as this is the fastest option.
+
+So if anybody want to make change right now, no problem, just send
+patchs against the puppet configuration ( who is on
+svn://svn.mageia.org/svn/adm/ for anonymous checkout ), we will review
+and apply them. 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+