[maemo-developers] PPA's?

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Thursday 04 February 2010 21:59:41 Kees Jongenburger wrote:
> PPA's have been discussed a few times already and did not receive real
> negative votes. The Maemo community has put a great effort in removing
> all the external repositories that where "alive or dead" on different
> sites so I guess we are a little afraid :p. One of the biggest
> problems besides chaos  was the question if you can trust code that is
> not compiled on a "independent" system. I would like to use something
> like PPA to be able to select apps I want to install on my N900 when
> using my PC but ssh works pretty well :p

I think the proposal was for a PPA system like the launchpad/Ubuntu one - it's 
not different sites, just extras-devel class builds that you do not intend for 
the general (even developer) public (but still made and stored on the 
community server). If you ask me, I'd even consider everybody land packages 
from the autobuilder into their PPA and promote to extras-devel from there (I 
always feel bad when I experiment with packages in extras-devel, as 
unsuspecting folks might pull in some work-in-progress stuff, plus all the 
potential cruft just snowballing the Packages file...).

Regards,
Attila