LS Since there is not a clear answer yet, and both the undersigned Distro's feel a better way of testing the tagged tars is needed during the 4-5 days before they are officially released, we'd like to make a proposal on behalf of the Linux distributions Arch Linux and the Chakra-Project.
Consistently we are the first to warn and report about bugs in just released tars, but neither distro has a good way of building these packages, store them safely on their servers, and keep them completely hidden from the public. Big question truly is why they should be hidden. Both these distro's do not make it possible for the regular user to find these packages. The repo's where they are placed are not on any official repo list made available to any regular user installing these distro's, only those with inside info how to edit the needed files, will be able to find these packages. We also know there is a fear bug reports for non-released KDE version will surface, but we both educate our testers to report any issues found internally, and if it is clear it is not a distro specific bug, not testers but a distro developer will convey the found bug/issue to the appropriate channel. We, as Arch Linux and Chakra-Project developers would like to propose now to follow the recommendation set by Dirk Mueller in the last long ml thread regarding this issue, and have the build packages from the tagged tars available to our testers during the time period between tagging and release. Arch Linux: Andrea Scarpino [email protected] Chakra-Project: Manuel Tortosa [email protected] Anke Boersma [email protected] _______________________________________________ release-team mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team
