[Mageia-dev] backports

Mon Jul 25 21:47:24 CEST 2011

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.
+