+1 for using mirrors system to distribute milestone build. 2012/10/10 Marcus (OOo) <marcus.m...@wtnet.de>
> Am 10/09/2012 03:58 AM, schrieb Shenfeng Liu: > > 2012/10/9 Ariel Constenla-Haile<arielch@**apache.org <arie...@apache.org> >> > >> >> Hi Jürgen, * >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 04:58:03PM +0200, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >>> >>>> The build bots are still not build the same as we do for the binary >>>> releases (please correct me if I am wrong). Means as long as we don't >>>> have build bots which are building with the same configuration we should >>>> provide the builds manually in the same way we did it for the release. >>>> >>>> @Ariel, would that be ok for you fro now until we have a better >>>> solution? >>>> >>> >>> Yes, I will apply the set up described in >>> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/**show_bug.cgi?id=119385<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119385>, >>> that is, >>> decreasing Linux system requirements to glibc 2.5 >>> >>> Any one is welcome to take any of the two architectures (building on >>> Linux is multiplied by 4: rpm/deb, 32 and 64 bits; this counts on >>> building time and uploading the packages); if not, I will take care of >>> both. >>> >>> >>>> I will take care of Windows and MacOS. >>>> >>>> >>>> (2) How many language support can we get for this milestone build? >>>>> Not >>>>> necessary to be 100% translated, but can be a base for volunteers to >>>>> >>>> verify >>> >>>> the translation. >>>>> >>>> >>>> We should include the languages that we have released and add all >>>> languages where we notice active volunteers who help us to support these >>>> further languages (eg. Polish, Danish, Scots Gaelic, ...) >>>> >>>> >>>> (3) The current development snapshot naming [a] is a little confusing >>>>> >>>> to >>> >>>> me. I wonder if we can change the naming to reflect the date of the >>>>> >>>> build? >>> >>>> >>>> I am not sure if understand you correct. The revision is a unique >>>> identifier and makes it clear what went in the snapshot. We probably >>>> upload the builds not all on the same day. Means I am not sure how a >>>> date can help here. >>>> >>> >>> I guess that besides the revision, milestone builds can be identified by >>> their milestone number, which should be increased in every milestone >>> build: AOO350m1 AOO350m2 etc >>> >>> just like in OOo times there was DEV300m105 DEV300m106 etc >>> http://www.openoffice.org/**development/releases/** >>> DEV300m106_snapshot.html<http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/DEV300m106_snapshot.html> >>> it could start now from DEV350m1 >>> >>> >>> OK, I understand the revision now, and let's forget the "date". >> And I agree with Ariel that a milestone number like AOO350m1 will be >> better >> when we promote it. >> I personally do not think we need to use mirror. But a download page that >> Marcus suggested will be good. >> > > Sure, the download page can point to the builds on the mirror system or > the ASF people's directories (when the paths are unified then automatism is > much easier). > > But when using the mirrors we could: > - stear the timeframe how long a milestone should be online, > - when to release the next dev build, > - a simple point of downloadable dev builds, > - and of course we can see how often which file was downloaded. To see if > it's worth the efforts at all. > > So, I think we should try to distribute the dev builds via the mirror > system. If we laster think that it doesn't make sense anymore then we can > stop it. > > Marcus > -- Thanks & Best Regards, Yan Ji