[maemo-developers] Package promoting

[From: Patrick Beck]

Am Montag, den 27.09.2010, 15:26 +0200 schrieb Benoît HERVIER:
> > Why should it break the philosophy of release early, release often?
> > Release early, release often is a important feature to create a stable
> > release - it's for testing purposes as main point.
> As user should not use devel, releasing often release the karma in
> extras-testing and delay things

No he should use the stable version - and get updates when it's finished
and stable. I think 10 days is not the problem.

> 
> > In your Linux distribution you get only security updates in a release
> > (normally). When you upgrade your system to a newer version you will get
> > new software.
> 
> In my linux distribution, i got security update, stable new release
> and bug fixes.

New Releases can break the system if it uses new libs that conflict with
software that uses outdated features of the lib.

> 
> > I think devel and testing is the right place for the release early,
> > release often practice.
> Yes it is ... but prevent upload to extras. Or need a 'pause' in the
> release early, release often.

We talk about 10 days, not more.

> > As now the most users (me too) uses extras-devel and co as
> > normal repository and i have no problems - you have only to know that
> > it's a test field.
> Yes but not all users understand it, i got frequent complain from user
> using unstable lib from extras-devel which my apps conflict with
> (pyqt4.6 vs pyqt4.7 aka experimental).
> 

Thats the reason why it's not activated on a default setup. I think it's
very save when you install through the package-manager - you get a huge
hint with all risks (i think it's extreme), but the most people can't
read and think it's a joke ...

> > I think the quality of software in extras (testing / devel, too.) is very high.
> I'm not sure that outdated is really something we could name good quality :)

When you call 10 days outdated - yes you are right :) Which software is
so important that it needs releases just in time? AGTL for example uses
a webupdate when geocaching.com changes - so it's up to date with the
html parser - but it think thats very special.

regards Patrick


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