[csw-maintainers] dublin* build hosts ready

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński's message of Sun Jun 03 13:41:01 -0400 2012:
> 2012/5/31 Jan Holzhueter <jh at opencsw.org>
> > I think it might be a good thing to just allow a few people to
> > push stuff into dublin/names releases directly. (Some kind of
> > review/fix integration board).
> >
> > I know it might delay stuff but I think it's worth it.
> 
> I would be generally loathing to add human-based middle steps between
> maintainers and catalogs.

I agree with this.  We really don't want to inject the spof that we
had previously.  But we do need a sane mechanism for this.  I wonder
if some sort of shadow catalog (dublin-shadow) that allowed direct
push might work.  Then, a publish mechanism like we have for unstable
-> dublin could be used.

> We potentially could do something like it. It would introduce more
> complexity to the way we operate catalogs. What I'm mostly concerned
> here is that maintainers can inadvertently push packages to
> dublin. We only need some safety mechanism so the risk is minimized
> and we'll be grand.

Yes, this is good.  We don't (ever, I think) want a direct push to a
published 'stable' catalog.  There should always be a level of
indirection and the ability to have all changes to a stable catalog
publicly vetted.

Thanks
-Ben
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