On Friday 13 June 2008, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:23 AM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Questions? Complaints? Pet peeves? > > I'd rather rename our build roots to either correspond to fedora > releases or to olpc releases. It seems that the 'olpc2, olpc3, ...' > numbering is a historical accident only, and just erects another > barrier to someone trying to understand how to contribute. A new > developer might ask, "I want to tag something for the 8.2 release, > what branch should I use?" and then have to be told the arcane history > of olpc buildroots to understand why the answer is "olpc3" and not > "olpc4" (say). > > Historically, we've shifted build roots only when we've moved from one > fedora major release to another. So, "olpc-f9", "olpc-f10" would be > one naming scheme which is slightly easier to explain: you just have > to explain that 8.2 is based on fedora 9. If the builds are named > after olpc releases ("olpc-8.2", etc) they need no explanation, > although that means that we create a new build root for (say) > "olpc-8.3" even if it weren't strictly necessary. (Keeping the > olpc-8.2 build root for the 8.3 release would bring us back into > confusion-land.) > > The one complaint I hear over and over again is that our version/build > numbering scheme is too complex and baroque. Absent compelling > evidence to the contrary, I'd prefer to keep the names as simple as > possible, with as few different numbering schemes as possible, and > where we must have numbers, as far as possible use already existing > numbers (like fedora builds) instead of inventing our own. > --scott
Scott, I fully agree which is why i said what i said http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/012513.html and http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-April/012644.html moving forward if we used say olpc-f9 what disttag should we use. if we use .fc9 as fedora uses its harder to easily see what packages we diverge on. i like .olpc3 as its clear that we have diverged on those packages and anything .fc9 comes from fedora. i don't particularly like .olpcf9 but that's certainly an option. Dennis
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