On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Paul Tarjan <p...@fb.com> wrote: > I won't stir the pot with any more legal discussion. That isn't my field > and I'm just parroting what our legal department tells me anyways. I've > articulated our position before, so I'll just wait until the legal issue > is actually blocking our adoption. Ok? This is correct.
> Since my last email, I put a bunch of effort into my packaging script. Now > they are signed correctly, there is a main skeleton and then overrides for > each version, and it updates the version files for me. Feel free to make > pull requests or use this as a basis: > https://github.com/hhvm/packaging/tree/master/hhvm/deb Checked wheezy/ which is just wrong. It's a binary debian directory and not a source one, I think 'Essential' is only used if its value is 'yes'. Standards-Version is missing, no long package description, ... > Internally at FB we release a new version of HHVM every 2 weeks. We cut > the branch on Monday and then do lots of rigorous testing and ship it 10 > days later on Thursday morning. I'd like to exactly mirror the internal > releases since they are well tested instead of just arbitrarily cutting > trunk. Many people voiced opinions that every 2 weeks was too fast for > major open source releases so we agreed on mirroring every 4 releases (8 > weeks). How does that sound? It is easy to make it faster or slower by 2 > week increments if anyone has opinions. My opinion for releases follows. Do one if there's an important bugfix, new feature added, etc. In short, if there's a reason. On the other hand, there's no problem with releasing every two weeks, it's just not common. It matches with Debian standards, meaning that normally ten days needed for unstable -> testing migration. > Lastly, Laszlo, we should talk about how I can help with packaging. Do you have a packager position there, at FB? :) At least ATM I've two places to work for. At Debian I've more than a hundred packages and twenty to do. Especially that I have to work more or less constant from 31st 06:00 am to 2nd 04:20 pm. Will be hard, thus I'll start again with HHVM next year. Now my previous package section for HHVM, which I've named hiphop-php (to match the PHP policy of Debian, but will re-check that): -- cut -- Package: hiphop-php Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends} Description: HipHop VM for PHP HipHop VM (HHVM) is a new open-source virtual machine designed for executing programs written in PHP. HHVM uses a just-in-time compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the flexibility that PHP developers are accustomed to. HipHop VM (and before it HPHPc) has realized > 5x increase in throughput for Facebook compared with Zend PHP 5.2. HipHop is most commonly run as a standalone server, replacing both Apache and modphp. -- cut -- > I > currently make a new branch for major versions and tags for each point > release on our github repo. Do you want me to email you when I do this or > can you subscribe to github easily? I've a GitHub account, can follow your release cycle. Debian can automatically track upstream releases even. > Or should I setup a mailing list and > always email that when I push? That's up to you, several projects have an announce mailing list. I don't need it strictly. > I'll probably still have to keep packaging > it for other distros since you're only going to do debian, right? Or is > there an easy way for you to also do it in other debian-based distros > (ubuntu, mint). Can you also do yum based distros or do you know what I > should do for inclusion there? I think packaging for Debian is a good step. Then Ubuntu maintainers will pick it up and as I know, Mint based on Ubuntu, they will have it as well. I've experience with Red Hat and Fedora packaging as well. You may know that the transition is Fedora -> Red Hat from time to time. I made one or two packages for CentOS in the past, but we'll see that later. I'm off for sleeping. Laszlo/GCS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
