Adrian, I think the forum idea has been discussed previously, unsuccessfully. Imho the idea itself is good, but our small community might get spread too thin between the lists and forum.
-- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adrian Lewis" <adr...@alsiconsulting.co.uk> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Friday, 10 October, 2014 13:23:45 > Subject: RE: Unreleased 4.4.1 packages on cloudstack.apt-get.eu, why? > Perhaps it's just me being lazy but I reckon that having defined 'beta' and > RC packages available for download (with some form of marketing to inform > people) would likely increase the sample size for testing, including > different use cases. I'm pretty sure that there are a number of people that > fit the sysadmin role rather than the devops or developer role who just > won't go to the effort of trying to work out what to checkout, build and > package themselves even if they did know how to. I realise that the audience > for CS may be different to many other OS software projects out there but > most well-used projects (including many commercial ones) that I work with go > through this process. The only other issue would be that of feedback - I > know it's an Apache thing but an online forum site would really make > providing feedback much easier than the mailing list. > > Adrian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nux! [mailto:n...@li.nux.ro] > Sent: 10 October 2014 09:24 > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: Re: Unreleased 4.4.1 packages on cloudstack.apt-get.eu, why? > > Yes that's not a bad idea. At some point we had a chat with Hugo and David > about having jenkins generate RPMs with incremented version and setup a repo > for them which lead me to believe that at least Jenkins is capable of that. > > So, whoever is in charge of Jenkins, how can we achieve this? > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Erik Weber" <terbol...@gmail.com> >> To: "dev" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> >> Sent: Friday, 10 October, 2014 09:10:35 >> Subject: Re: Unreleased 4.4.1 packages on cloudstack.apt-get.eu, why? > >> Or make a different folder for unreleased versions? >> That way you could upload daily builds as well if you ever wanted to >> >> How about >> - a stable/release folder, where released versions go >> - a rc folder, for official release versions >> - a nightly/dev folder, for either a nightly version or the latest >> master build >> >> Couple it with jenkins and it would be easy for testers to verify that >> a bug is fixed by upgrading their RC or dev version >> >> -- >> Erik >> >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Daan Hoogland >> <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> I was thinking about that. I shouldn't have done this upload but had >>> a reason to. I want to make these available for testers. maybe i can >>> upload them without adding them to the rpm index...? >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: >>> >>> > Perhaps we need a testing repo for non-final packages? >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >>> > >>> > Nux! >>> > www.nux.ro >>> > >>> > ----- Original Message ----- >>> > > From: "Daan Hoogland" <daan.hoogl...@gmail.com> >>> > > To: "dev" <dev@cloudstack.apache.org> >>> > > Sent: Thursday, 9 October, 2014 17:42:50 >>> > > Subject: Re: Unreleased 4.4.1 packages on cloudstack.apt-get.eu, why? >>> > >>> > > i did >>> > > >>> > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Ian Duffy <i...@ianduffy.ie> wrote: >>> > > >>> > >> Wildo, >>> > >> >>> > >> Do we have no kind of audit on uploads? >>> > >> >>> > >> On 9 October 2014 12:25, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: >>> > >> >>> > >> > >>> > >> > >>> > >> > On 10/09/2014 01:21 PM, Nux! wrote: >>> > >> > > Hello, >>> > >> > > >>> > >> > > I've noticed there are 4.4.1 packages on >>> > >> > http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/rhel/4.4/. >>> > >> > > Since 4.4.0 is latest release, how come? This is bad, people >>> > >> > > will >>> > >> > install broken stuff. >>> > >> > > Can anyone fix this? >>> > >> > > >>> > >> > >>> > >> > I removed the packages, but I'm not sure who uploaded them. >>> > >> > >>> > >> > They were uploaded on September 30th at 11:12 CET. >>> > >> > >>> > >> > Wido >>> > >> > >>> > >> > > Lucian >>> > >> > > >>> > >> > > -- >>> > >> > > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >>> > >> > > >>> > >> > > Nux! >>> > >> > > www.nux.ro >>> > >> > > >>> > >> > >>> > >> >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > -- >>> > > Daan >>> > >>> >>> >>> >>> -- > >> Daan