[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) wrote on 30.07.02 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I don't think it offers much if anything over special-purpose staging > areas as is being used for perl 5.8 right now. It seems to me staging areas could solve a lot of these difficulties, yes. I'm not clear on the current state of the art (never having needed to use them), but I envision a productive state approximately like this: * Have some (semi-?)automatic way of creating a new staging area * Allow upload to a "staging/xyz" distribution via the usual upload queues (and probably using the usual pool, and having the staging stuff under dists/staging/xyz with Packages files and everything - easier on mirrors _and_ developers/testers that way) * Have a (semi-?)automatic way of "pulling the plug" on a staging area, so that all of it packages get injected into unstable and the staging area closed in one go Creating a new staging area, and pulling the plug, should involve more than making a changelog entry - otherwise errors are too easy to make - but if we can get away without bothering ftp masters or release coordinators, that's a plus. You might envision staging areas as short-time extra-unstables. MfG Kai
