On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My experience over the last few months has been that a centralized > unstable build stream is worth less than it costs to maintain using the > tools we've built today because it tends to aggregate changes of widely > varying quality without recording which changes are good and which are > bad. I now think that we are better served either by relying wholly on > decentralized topic builds for unstable development,
We will try to find time at linuxtag to experiment with these for Sugar. > on unstable build > streams under the manual control of individuals and teams, How is this different then joyride? Are these topic streams? > or on an > automated unstable streams only if they automatically quarantine > breakage. Can you elaborate on how breakage would be quarantined? How difficult it will be to build infrastructure for it? Do we have time to do it for August? >> >> Which build branch requires your approval and which doesn't? > > Only the ones that I'm maintaining. And you maintain the stable builds for 8.1.1 and 8.2.0, correct? >> I'm fine with personal negotiation, but we need to document how >> maintainers are supposed to negotiate inclusion in the builds and >> through which tools it concretely happens. > > Fair enough. I'll propose a first draft: > > 1. Contact me on devel@ or in the public IRC channels when you want to > negotiate. I'll either tell you that I'm busy or I'll talk with > you. You should be prepared to explain what your changes do and why > you think they're good. > > 2. After we talk, we'll each have a better idea of how things will > proceed, e.g. > > * when you'll have packages ready for me to try out, We need to tell people how they should build these packages and how to let you try them out (provide a custom build, get them in one of the unstable streams, just provide one or more rpms to install on the base of the current stable build...). > * what bugs I should try to test carefully, > * what areas I need to watch for regressions, Do you still want test cases for each change? If so I think it should be made more clear. Also, executing the test cases and reporting to you about the results is maintainer responsibility (either personally or through volunteers)? Thanks, Marco _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
