[Mageia-dev] regarding tainted progress

Sun May 29 14:07:59 CEST 2011

Le dimanche 29 mai 2011 à 12:50 +0200, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+> Op zondag 29 mei 2011 12:05:26 schreef Michael Scherer:
+> > Le dimanche 29 mai 2011 à 11:52 +0200, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+> > > Hi,
+> > > 
+> > > I've spoken with spturtle about the tainted packages rebuild of existing
+> > > packages (ffmpeg, mplayer,...)
+> > > 
+> > > He mentions he did local builds of those, and is waiting on a BS change?
+> > 
+> > Everything is on the bug report
+> > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338 ( that you likely could not
+> > miss )
+> 
+> I suppose i should've put the link in my email...
+> 
+> > Personally, I think this can be fixed after with updates ( ie push
+> > updated rpms with support for specific codecs after the release is out )
+> > so this should not be release critical.
+> 
+> I kind of disagree with you here on 2 points:
+>  - I estimate(wild guess) that if there is even 4hours between release and 
+> these packages appearing, that you're already gonna have at least one person 
+> complaining about it
+
+And so ? I think that I clearly articulated my point about complain in
+the past, something about "patch or you do not exist", some ruthless
+motto geared toward efficiency.
+
+More precisely, how many people would complain if the release do not
+appear in time, after having worked so hard to meet the deadline ?
+
+>  - If you say, after release is fine; then it'll likely take more than a week 
+> after release to have those packages on the mirrors, because at that point 
+> people will just want to "fix" the BS the correct way...
+
+Technically, even before, it should be the right way. We had enough
+issues with stuff "that will be fixed later" on Mandriva side that I
+think we learned the lesson, like "we will clean the buildsystem later"
+
+( so it was running forked version of youri, with no spec on how it
+work, with script auto correcting mirrors silently, etc )
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+