Re: State of Jenkins in Debian

2014-03-31 Thread intrigeri
Hi, [Please Cc me any reply, I don't read the list.] Guido wrote: > Even the packages in sid are very valuable. We use these packages for Tails [1], and I wholeheartedly agree with Guido here. Long-term, PPAMAIN might be a great fit for Jenkins, but in the meantime, maintaining the package in si

Re: State of Jenkins in Debian

2014-03-24 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Tony, On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 09:49:02AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: [..snip..] > My concern is not that we don't have the proper channels through which > to deliver, but that each means another release to support. In this > model we have (at a minimum) unstable, stable-security (which requires

Re: State of Jenkins in Debian

2014-03-23 Thread tony mancill
On 03/23/2014 02:20 AM, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi Tony, > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:43:48PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: > [..snip..] >> In any event, I can sympathize and am glad that you're opening the >> discussion. Not everything is going to fit the "stable" distribution >> model - sometimes y

Re: State of Jenkins in Debian

2014-03-23 Thread Guido Günther
Hi Tony, On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:43:48PM -0700, tony mancill wrote: [..snip..] > In any event, I can sympathize and am glad that you're opening the > discussion. Not everything is going to fit the "stable" distribution > model - sometimes you need the "freshest bits." We do have stable-backpo

Re: State of Jenkins in Debian

2014-03-23 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 02:37:34PM +, James Page wrote: [..snip..] > I'm also concerned about where Jenkins could be realistically > maintained in a stable Debian; Upstream move fast (LTS release every 3 > months) and I've found that unless you understand the inside of > Kohsuke's mind, tryin

Re: State of Jenkins in Debian

2014-03-12 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Emmanuel, all, [...] > > In any event, I can sympathize and am glad that you're opening the > > discussion. Not everything is going to fit the "stable" distribution > > model - sometimes you need the "freshest bits." > > What about uploading such packages to contrib instead of main? This > co

Re: State of Jenkins in Debian

2014-03-12 Thread David Gerard
On 12 March 2014 14:33, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > For the record I pushed the latest version of tomcat7 to > wheezy-backports. I do agree that uploading the new versions of Tomcat > to fix security issues would be much better than backporting the changes > to the version in stable. Tomcat is very s

Re: State of Jenkins in Debian

2014-03-12 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Le 12/03/2014 05:43, tony mancill a écrit : > In general, for software that has an active upstream already tackling > the problems of frequent updates for security and bug fixes, the user > community might be better served by a PPA or similar. Essentially, > instead of having tomcat-x.y.z be *the

Re: State of Jenkins in Debian

2014-03-11 Thread tony mancill
On 03/04/2014 06:37 AM, James Page wrote: > Hi Team > > I'm writing here first before I file a formal RFH or O in the hope > that someone in the team might have the capacity to take up the mantle > of maintaining Jenkins in Debian. > > I've found myself with increasingly less time to spend on Jen

Re: State of Jenkins in Debian

2014-03-11 Thread James Page
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 10/03/14 21:58, Stephen Nelson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:37 PM, James Page > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >> >> Hi Team >> >> I'm writing here first before I file a formal RFH or O in the >> hope that someon

Re: State of Jenkins in Debian

2014-03-10 Thread Stephen Nelson
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:37 PM, James Page wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi Team > > I'm writing here first before I file a formal RFH or O in the hope > that someone in the team might have the capacity to take up the mantle > of maintaining Jenkins in Debian. > H