Hi!
On 17.08.2007 20:49, Jon Ciesla wrote:
[...]
> Debian has solved this.
>
> This is why Debian has the multi-level system:
We IMHO have a multi-level-system as well if you look at the big
picture. It's similar, but not exactly the same
> experimental -- I just updated this package, it may eat your
brane
Fedora rawhide.
> unstable -- I think this will work, it's been in experimental
for __X__
> unit time without problems
Fedora test releases .
> testing -- I confidentially stand behind this package, it's
been in
> unstable for __Y__ unit time without problems
> stable -- really really stable
here we are more different. we have
- stable Fedora releases (Core + Extras in the past), which gets update
that come from testing, but not supporterd for longer time-periods
- stable RHEL releases + stable EPEL releases; new RHEL releases (5.1,
...) get tested in Betas (RHEL 5.1 Beta is out now); new EPEL packages
get tested in testing
[...]
> So, what we are currently doing is treating EPEL's "testing" as Debian
> experimental and EPEL's "stable" as "stable".
Nope -- experimental is Fedora rawhide, Fedora release, where stuff that
hits EPEL should get tested and shipped first. EPEL-testing is a kind of
beta-phase before things that were tested in Fedora hit EPEL stable.
> What I would propose is the following compromise:
>
> experimental --- all new updates go here
> testing -- pushable if no defects in experimental for 2 weeks
> stable -- pushed quarterly
I think it's to much overhead for a small gain. We have bigger problems
to solve first IMHO.
> We can basically do most of this with bohdi now.
Which we can't use without koji, which needs to be modifies before we
can use it.
[...]
+1. In the current world, how do we get a package out of testing? I know
I still have one with a broken dep, but once that's fixed. ..
It's written in the guidelines. New packages get into the repo with a
quarterly update -- just as RHEL does it in RHEL updates now and then. I
multiple times asked in the past to do it a bit more often (e.g. every
two months maybe), but that's still under discussion.
CU
knurd