El Dilluns, 4 de juny de 2012, a les 00:52:47, Albert Astals Cid va escriure: > My proposal: > > ****************************** > > The KDE Release Team recognizes the importance of making a source release > together with binary packages of various distributions since this greatly > increases the impact of a given release. > > To this effect we give the privilege of early access to unreleased tarballs > to select packagers of distributions > > In contrast to the privilege of early access to unreleased tarballs we ask > the packagers to follow this rules: > * Do not make the packages available to your users (even in development > branches) before the official tarballs are announced > * Report any compilation error you might find as soon as possible to the > release team mailing list > * Report any missing package or unpackaged dependency as soon as possible > to the release team mailing list > > Reiterated failure to comply with this guidelines might end up in revocation > of your special access to unreleased tarballs. > > ****************************** > > I know the first point might be tricky for some distributions, I'm sincerely > interested in knowing the opinion of the release team about packages of > unreleased tarballs being available to the greater public before we make > them public. > > I think that there are good and bad outcomes of that. > > Good: > * We get some *real* early testers out there and find if something fatal is > happening > > Bad: > * We lose some of the storm since we are "late" to our own release :D > > So it turns I'm undecided and don't know if we should un-tighthen the first > point to something like > * Do not make the packages available to your users (in stable or > automatically suggested updates to stable versions) before the official > tarballs are announced > > Comments?
Something I forgot to ask: Does anyone know if Gnome, Firefox, LibreOffice, etc. have setups like ours (early access to unreleased packages to distrbutions) and what they ask distributions in exchange? Cheers, Albert > > Albert > _______________________________________________ > release-team mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
