Re: Testing minor releases

2013-02-13 Thread Markus
I was using "instead" for the case that there is not enough manpower for Testing repos for all major distros. Then the obvious choice would be to use the platform that targets most distributions. As far as I'm aware, at least most core Plasma devs know their way around OBS because of Vivaldi/Me

Re: Testing minor releases

2013-02-13 Thread Philip Muskovac
On 02/13/2013 03:51 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: On Wednesday 13 February 2013 15:27:44 Markus wrote: Instead of Project Neon which is tied to a specific distribution someone with the proper knowledge should rather do a "KDE:/Testing" repo in OBS. It's not "instead of", it is "in addition to". Al

Re: Re: Testing minor releases

2013-02-13 Thread David Edmundson
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > On Wednesday 13 February 2013 15:27:44 Markus wrote: > > Instead of Project Neon which is tied to a specific distribution someone > > with the proper knowledge should rather do a "KDE:/Testing" repo in OBS. > It's not "instead of", it is "i

Re: Re: Testing minor releases

2013-02-13 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 13 February 2013 15:27:44 Markus wrote: > Instead of Project Neon which is tied to a specific distribution someone > with the proper knowledge should rather do a "KDE:/Testing" repo in OBS. It's not "instead of", it is "in addition to". Also here the problem is the "proper knowledge"

Re: Testing minor releases

2013-02-13 Thread Markus
Instead of Project Neon which is tied to a specific distribution someone with the proper knowledge should rather do a "KDE:/Testing" repo in OBS. OBS has the advantage that it can not only build for openSUSE but also Arch, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva,... (the cross-distro version of Unity i

Re: Testing minor releases

2013-02-13 Thread Myriam Schweingruber
Hi all, On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:21 PM, David Edmundson wrote: ... > > Questions: > - How much is it actually a problem? Is there a way to quantify how many > regressions come in during minor releases? I think it is a big problem, and from the user perspective it sheds a bad light on the poin

Re: Testing minor releases

2013-02-13 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:21:14 +, David Edmundson wrote: There is a current thread on the release team mailing list "Better testing of tagged tars" during the massive email thread the topic of testing the minor releases comes up. There is a supposed problem in KDE that we have people running st

Re: Testing minor releases

2013-02-13 Thread Anne-Marie Mahfouf
Hi, > > Questions: > - How much is it actually a problem? Is there a way to quantify how > many regressions come in during minor releases? I don't know about this > - How many user's do you think we could get? With proper communication, probably enough to make it worth. > - Is it worth pushing

Re: Testing minor releases

2013-02-13 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Wednesday 13 February 2013 12:21:14 David Edmundson wrote: > Questions: > - How much is it actually a problem? For me it's a huge problem. I'm quite afraid of pushing to branch at all because it's not tested (KWin is special in that regard we may never ever have regressions). In the end it mea

Testing minor releases

2013-02-13 Thread David Edmundson
There is a current thread on the release team mailing list "Better testing of tagged tars" during the massive email thread the topic of testing the minor releases comes up. There is a supposed problem in KDE that we have people running stable releases and we have people running the very latest mast