On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 3:11 PM, David ‘Bombe’ Roden <bo...@pterodactylus.net > wrote:
> ** > > Hi Matthew, > > > Also we could have many "streams" of test builds, by different > developers, > > > and thus let them release whatever they want to without it being > > > officially endorsed, but the users still be able to use the update.sh > > > <name> / update.cmd <name> conveniently. > > That would require quite some trickery in the update scripts, especially > in the Windows version of it, I guess. > Not really. Just need to make the download path a variable that is set at the beginning of the script. I could do the Windows script in less than an hour once decided how the files are named and where they are kept. > > True. Eventually we need real builds. Right now me, Ian and Nextgens > could > > > do a release (in some cases with significant effort). It may be that > > > others should be added to that list. > > Uhm… yes. One person on that list doesn’t have the time to do it anymore, > and the other two persons are… who are they, anyway? Ian has even less time > than you do, and he’s been completely detached from Freenet development for > years now; Nextgens at least sometimes drops by and tells us our crypto > sucks. :) > > > It's all automated, but it's a question of what level of automation is > > > sufficiently secure. A build MUST be SIGNED by a specific developer, and > > > his signing keys must be encrypted. So I don't think release-on-commit is > > > a good idea. However there is a set of scripts that allows a developer to > > > release a build reasonably easily - provided he has the secret keys and > > > SSH access to freenetproject.org. > > I didn’t necessarily mean non-interactive server-side automation. Building > and signing could happen locally but script-supported. > > > Big features should of course be on feature branches. Beyond that, it > makes > > > sense to have people who can build test-builds who can't actually do a > > > release, and they should have their own repositories. > > The way I see it test builds are releases as well; they just have to be > requested manually from those users that like to live on the bleeding edge. > Other than that I don’t see any distinction, especially not on their > “officialness.” > > Greetings, > > David > > -- > > David ‘Bombe’ Roden <bo...@pterodactylus.net> > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl@freenetproject.org > http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > -- I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it. - Voltaire Those who would give up Liberty, to purchase temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Ben Franklin
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