I'm in favor of removing testing and adding "experimental" instead.
This is closer to the actual way we use the ppa. On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Randal Hale < rjh...@northrivergeographic.com> wrote: > from my perspective it should be (which will completely break policy on > several fronts) > > Testing/unstable -> Fresh/Stable/Current -> Older Releases. > > I don't know how the naming would need to be. I hesitate to suggest > because I'm advocating breaking with a standard on Two different Distros. > I apologize in Advance. > > Randy > > > > On 09/16/2016 08:57 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote: > >> Hi Martin, >> >> Little clarification for the non-expert lurkers like myself, are you >> suggesting that the naming order should be as follows? >> >> unstable --> testing --> stable >> >> ... which would match the Debian policy found here: >> >> https://www.debian.org/releases/ >> >> Daniel >> >> >> On 2016-09-16 8:37 AM, Martin Landa wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I took liberty to forward opinion about PPA naming from GRASS ML. The >>> name for unstable PPA is simply confusing (moreover with combination >>> of testing PPA used for experimental packages - especially for Debian >>> users). Could be that I missed discussion about PPA naming, anyway >>> current names do not respect real usage of PPAs in my eyes. >>> >>> And I want to express again big thanks (especially to Angelos) for >>> making ubuntugis project alive! Martin >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Blumentrath, Stefan <stefan.blumentr...@nina.no> >>> Date: 2016-09-16 13:12 GMT+02:00 >>> Subject: RE: [GRASS-dev] ubuntu gis policy >>> To: Martin Landa <landa.mar...@gmail.com>, GRASS developers list >>> <grass-...@lists.osgeo.org> >>> >>> >>> Hei Martin, >>> >>> Do you have any chance to influence the naming of the PPAs? >>> >>> As recently also discussed on the QGIS mailinglist, packages from a >>> repository named "unstable" can get blocked by system administrators >>> (who not necessarily will take the time to try to understand what is >>> behind all applications), regardless if I as a user tell them that >>> "unstable" actually means "current release"... >>> >>> Would be nice to have a more admin-friendly name there... >>> >>> Cheers >>> Stefan >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: grass-dev [mailto:grass-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf >>> Of Martin Landa >>> Sent: 16. september 2016 13:03 >>> To: GRASS users list <grass-u...@lists.osgeo.org>; GRASS developers >>> list <grass-...@lists.osgeo.org> >>> Subject: [GRASS-dev] ubuntu gis policy >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> recently ubuntugis maintainers changed their policy. This means that >>> currently is used this workflow: >>> >>> OSGeoLive nightly --> UbuntuGIS Testing --> UbuntuGIS Unstable --> >>> UbuntuGIS Stable >>> >>> What does it means for GRASS? >>> >>> 1) experimental packages (like Release Candidates) are uploaded to >>> Testing PPA [1] >>> 2) final version packages are uploaded to Testing and Unstable [2] >>> 3) Stable PPA can contain older version [3] >>> >>> For user who want to help with testing experimental packages: please >>> use Testing PPA otherwise use Unstable (if you prefer up-to-date >>> version) or Stable PPA (you prefer stability - slightly older versions). >>> >>> Martin >>> >>> [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-testing >>> [2] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ubuntugis-unstable >>> [3] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugis/+archive/ubuntu/ppa >>> >>> -- >>> Martin Landa >>> http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa >>> http://gismentors.cz/mentors/landa >>> _______________________________________________ >>> grass-dev mailing list >>> grass-...@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev >>> >>> >>> >> >> > -- > ----------------- > Randal Hale > North River Geographic Systems, Inc > http://www.northrivergeographic.com > 423.653.3611 rjh...@northrivergeographic.com > twitter:rjhale > > _______________________________________________ > UbuntuGIS mailing list > Ubuntu@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu > http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki >
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