On 21 October 2010 22:48, Olivier Thauvin <nanar...@nanardon.zarb.org> wrote: > * Samuel Verschelde (sto...@laposte.net) wrote: >> Le jeudi 21 octobre 2010 00:44:16, Olivier Thauvin a écrit : >> > In a nutshell: this must be discuss. Having a people is at time just an >> > idea, but it solve a need I had in mandriva to provide some rpms for >> > testing purpose. >> >> I don't understand very well what kind of packages would go into "people" >> rather than in dedicated testing media. What would be the difference ? > > I can give the example I had on Mandriva: I did some work on 'rpm' > package itself, but since breaking this pakage would have lock the whole > Bs I'd prefer to first have it tested by some people. > This directory is in this case the perfect place. At this time, > "testing" media did not exists thought. > > Another example could be the XFCE live Cd done by some people in past, > hosted on distrib-coffee as mandriva where not able to push it on thier > mirror (this issue get solved latelly). > > Pushing something on the mageia Mirror need some control. The people > place give the opportunity to contributors to distribute somethings w/o > needing "super user" privileges, but with a clear "unofficial" state. > > I am pretty sure some people will find usage to it. > >> >> Regards >> >> Samuel Verschelde > -- > > Olivier Thauvin > CNRS - LATMOS > ♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♗ ♘ ♖ >
Adding to what Nanar said, the way I see it, the stuff in people/ are like the stuff we put in http://kenobi.mandriva.com/~contributor-name sometimes; i.e. rpm packages to test (e.g. during cooker freeze before asking for a push request on maintainers@)... etc. Just it'll be a bit of a bigger place AND it won't put a load on the build clusters themselves rather the load will be on mirrors, which is good IMHO. -- Ahmad Samir