[Mageia-dev] backports

Mon Jul 25 23:38:32 CEST 2011

Op maandag 25 juli 2011 22:18:59 schreef Samuel Verschelde:
+> 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
+
+Excellent, thanks
+