[csw-maintainers] RFD: Releases and staging proposal

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi James,

Am 09.02.2010 um 20:07 schrieb James Lee:
> On 08/02/10, 17:39:13, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote  
> regarding Re:
> [csw-maintainers] RFD: Releases and staging proposal:
>> As far as I'm aware, the #1 problem that we have in this sort of  
>> area, is
>> "no one has volunteered to commit to spend the many hours involved,  
>> to
>> be the official stable release manager"
>
> The number one problem has been the number of packages and innovation.

If that would be thase case why didn't I hear something like
"Ok, lets schedule the new projects so we get a stable out of
the door"?

> Taking a snapshot only makes sense if done at an opportune time and
> there hasn't been one.  Remember it has to be the timed right for
> people too, not only those enacting release but those changing the
> game as we go.  Stability needs less innovation.  That means we need
> some people to hold off change while we plough though the mess.

Sure. And with the new concept and GAR we could patch packages in
the snapshotted tree easily.

> Here's one example, we have stuff linked to both /usr/openwin and
> /opt/csw/X11.  I fear if we rebuild one package it just moves the
> front to another which will possibly meet something large like KDE.
> There are needs for experimental forks, /opt/csw/X11 could be one.
> It might end up this easily solved in a few moves but it will take
> time to verify the fact and it really shouldn't need asking in the
> first place.

Ok then, identify problems, file bugs, lookup maintainers, fix.


Best regards

   -- Dago