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

State of Jenkins in Debian

2014-03-04 Thread James Page
-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. I've found myself with increasingly less time to spend on Jenkins; m