With the possible exception of remaining bug fixes, everything seems to be in. So it's time to go back to the topic of offering end user friendly packaging:
Was a blueprint created out of the below or should I create one? Does Mark/build team have bandwidth to work on this? If not, please give me access to build infrastructure so I can help. henrik On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually there is this: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/drizzle/+bug/823272 "Offer binary tar for download" > > However, offering RPMs and DEBs is more important. Until this email > thread I assumed RPMs and DEBs would continue to appear magically so > I'm not aware of a blueprint or bug about that topic. > > I'm happy to write one if it makes it more likely that 7.1 beta will > be released with RPMs and DEBs. In any case, the contents of such a > blueprint would be: > > *** > > Overall requirement: > > Drizzle releases should always include RPM and DEB formats. (And > preferably but less critically also binary TAR, see separate bug about > that.) > > Implementation requirements: > > The code, scripts and spec files needed should be included in main > drizzle bzr repository. This means it is possible to do "make rpm" and > "make deb" from the drizzle sources. > > Building RPM and DEB formats should be included as Jenkins build > targets and included in integration test for new patches coming into > trunk. > > Primary way of building RPM and DEB is from the source TAR package, > not directly from bzr. (ie these need to be chained Jenkins jobs.) > > Jenkins QA of these packages should start from a clean > Centos/Ubuntu/Debian VM to ensure that RPM/DEB dependencies are > correctly defined. > > Other Jenkins tests can include things like upgrading from Drizzle 7, > or installing Drizzle into a Linux where default distro version of > MySQL is already installed. > > An important use case (that I recently added to the top level Drizzle > README) is that you should be able to compile Drizzle from source > after doing apt-get build-dep drizzle. This should be a separate test > too. (Ie if developer adds dependencies on new libraries, they need to > fix DEB/RPM to include that dependency.) > > **** > > I did this kind of stuff for DEBs and binary TARs in my paternity > leave "MepSQL" project, so I'm happy to help out if you need more > hands. As I see it working on better documentation is a lost cause if > we don't offer friendly installation packages first. > > henrik > > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Mark Atwood <[email protected]> wrote: >> Are there blueprints or open bugs about adding build targets? >> >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Brian Aker <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> That is up to the packagers. I'd really like to see them become build >>> targets. >>> >>> Sent from my TI85 >>> >>> On Sep 27, 2011, at 23:19, Henrik Ingo <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Btw, does beta status mean that there will be RPMs and DEBs, or is it >>>> still source only? (I'm of course asking because I'm hoping for the >>>> former, it's very important for adoption to provide packages.) >>>> >>>> henrik >>>> >>>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Brian Aker <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Stewart, Patrik, and I met up in person today. To get the beta out the >>>>> door >>>>> Crews is going to enable the replication testing for multi-master. >>>>> >>>>> Other then that? >>>>> >>>>> Beta is the release after next week. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my TI85 >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> [email protected] >>>> +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo >>>> www.openlife.cc >>>> >>>> My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>> Post to : [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> > > > > -- > [email protected] > +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo > www.openlife.cc > > My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 > -- [email protected] +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
