[maemo-developers] Maemo 5 PR1.2 and Extras

[From: Graham Cobb]

On Wednesday 24 February 2010 11:21:45 Niels Breet wrote:
> - Maemo 5 PR1.2 will ship with Extras enabled by default but will use
> distribution: fremantle-1.2
> - 'older' devices will continue to fetch from distribution: fremantle
> - Autobuilder will be updated when PR1.2 is released and promotion will
> only happen to fremantle-1.2

I can't say I like this.  My personal view is that there will be a lot of 
people running earlier software for quite a long time.  How long do Nokia 
believe it will be before 80% of new devices being sold in retail stores have 
PR1.2 pre-installed?  Can we keep track of stats showing how many people are 
accessing the old repository?

However, as I don't have any evidence, I don't object to this approach.  It at 
least leaves the door open for the community to decide later that we do need 
to update the fremantle extras, if necessary.  Let's go with it for now.

We do need to have a plan for exactly when the changeovers will happen. When 
will the autobuilder switch over and when will the promotion interface 
change? Developers need to know so they know what they need to do if they 
need to get a final update out to PR1.1 users.

For example, I have the GPE stuff sitting in extras-testing.  I would really 
like this to make it into the PR1.1 repository, even though the next update 
will only make it to PR1.2.

Graham