[maemo-developers] PPA's?

[From: Jeff Moe]

On Thursday 04 February 2010 16:35:07 Attila Csipa wrote:
> 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...).

This would be really cool. :)  Then at least people's changes would be all in one place for easy review instead of spewed all over the place. For instance, if we had this I would:

* Put the etch builds there first

* Put my kernel builds there.

* Put packages that conflict with something in extras-devel already (e.g. I have mplayer builds that have jack and perhaps a few other features enabled).

Right now things are just in random locations (for me and others). It would be nice to have it all unified.

-Jeff