Re: F17 process change proposal

2011-09-21 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 21:55, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruno Wolff III writes: >> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:08:56 +0300, >>   Kalev Lember wrote: >>> With my proposal, Branched and rawhide would have exactly the same >>> package set during the Alpha Freeze - Beta Freeze time frame. That way, >>> we'd

Re: F17 process change proposal

2011-09-20 Thread Tom Lane
Bruno Wolff III writes: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:08:56 +0300, > Kalev Lember wrote: >> With my proposal, Branched and rawhide would have exactly the same >> package set during the Alpha Freeze - Beta Freeze time frame. That way, >> we'd have a month to let users choose whether they want to

Re: F17 process change proposal

2011-09-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:08:56 +0300, Kalev Lember wrote: > As it is right now, it is somewhat difficult to get off the rawhide > track and to continue on Branched. For example, if a person that's yum downgrade works pretty reasonably if you haven't moved too far past. Broken deps cause issue

Re: F17 process change proposal

2011-09-20 Thread Kalev Lember
On 09/21/2011 12:47 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 22:38:32 +0300, > Kalev Lember wrote: >> >> I would also like to move everybody who has been on the rawhide branch >> to Branched at Alpha time, in order to get the maximum amount of testing >> for the new release. > > May

Re: F17 process change proposal (was: Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components)

2011-09-20 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 22:38:32 +0300, Kalev Lember wrote: > > I would also like to move everybody who has been on the rawhide branch > to Branched at Alpha time, in order to get the maximum amount of testing > for the new release. Maybe most, but not everybody. Some people work on stuff in r

F17 process change proposal (was: Re: Responsibility for rebuilding dependent components)

2011-09-20 Thread Kalev Lember
On 09/20/2011 09:18 PM, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Panu Matilainen wrote: >> >> My personal pet-peeve with the current branching policy is that >> the mass-branching happens way way too early for packages where >> there are no significant new development to be introduced