Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (594 mails)

[Dirk Müller <dmueller@xxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 13 August 2009, Henne Vogelsang wrote:

> > - package updates can be submitted against openSUSE:11.2:Update
> Adrian can we make this a new request type maybe? Instead of another
> webtool i would like to integrate this with the buildservice. Does not
> sound too hard to do. Just a submitrequest with additional data attached
> which we can later export to swamp. What do you think?

I think this is a good idea! I've created a fate for this: 

https://features.opensuse.org/307621

I think it is a good idea to vote for the feature :)

> > - A group of openSUSE people (both community and Novell internal, I
> > suggest 5 people) reviews update submissions if they're in line with the
> > opensuse update policy and coordinates their releases. Unclear how to
> > bootstrap this group.
> That should be simple. Is there anyone who would be interested in this?

So the summary is that we have here Magnus Boman, Petr Uzel and Alexandr 
volunteering to review opensuse submissions, which is good news. However, the 
actual policy is missing still. 

> > - To ensure timely release of security updates, each devel group for 11.2
> > must contain at least one Novell employee. We can think about relaxing
> > this for future openSUSE releases.
> We don't have this rule for devel projects for factory. As maintenance
> for released products is is just another assignment for the devel
> projects i think we have to live without this.

I think it is sensible to require that all the packages have a devel project 
assigned and that those devel projects have at least one bugowner and at least 
one active maintainer. 

> I understand what you are
> trying to achieve (an escalation path for the openSUSE maintenance team
> you propose above) but i would rather handle this with a Rapid Response
> Team.

That could be a fallback, yes. Who would staff the RRT? 

> The Rapid Response Team would be the Team the openSUSE Maintenance Team
> can escalate updates to that they, for whatever reason, can't get from
> the devel project.

I think the RRT is a good idea to handle whatever devel projects turn 
unmaintained (the related community members disappear or are no longer 
interested in working on it), but it is a bad idea to start with that setup. 
Note that we have 18months to maintain the codebase, this is a long timeframe.

Greetings,
Dirk

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