[Mageia-dev] backports

Mon Jul 25 22:18:59 CEST 2011

Le lundi 25 juillet 2011 21:47:24, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+1B and 2C for me, but I'm summarizing a more detailed proposal from the 
+previous discussion + discussion with misc on IRC, which I hope we will adopt.
+
+Samuel
+