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Re: [opensuse-gnome] GNOME:STABLE and GNOME:UNSTABLE
- From: Stanislav Brabec <sbrabec@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:27:39 +0200
- Message-id: <1191486459.12106.73.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Michael Wolf wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-10 at 19:09 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > JP Rosevear wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:24 -0500, Michael Wolf wrote:
> > > > ** Workflow
> > > >
> > > > Doing our ongoing development in GNOME:UNSTABLE will make it easier
> > > > for anyone interested in contributing to do so.
> > >
> > > When will we start this? ie should we be submitting internally only
> > > still for now?
> >
> > It is not a technical problem, it is a work-flow problem. Please consult
> > with aj and coolo, what can be done to not conflict between ongoing
> > development of GNOME:UNSTABLE and ongoing development of Factory.
>
> I think the right thing to do is to ask the autobuild team to reject
> submissions for anything that'll go into /work/SRC/all/GNOME unless it
> comes from GNOME:UNSTABLE or another repository in the build service.
Well, then we need a way, how people could do global changes in GNOME
packages (e. g. BuildRequires after package rename / branch, new
CFLAGS,...).
> > We might use technical solutions to solve this problem - e. g. making
> > snapshot of Factory packages in a moment of starting separate
> > development in G:U, but success ratio of an automatic spec and patch
> > merging is not as good as one could expect (I guess ~70%).
>
> I think any plan for this that requires any manual merges, other than merges
> within a single branch (in the terms of a proper version control system)
> or project, would be a real mistake.
Standard version control system does not work well for packages - spec
files changes are concentrated in preamble and %prep and you get a lot
of rejects there.
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Best Regards / S pozdravem,
Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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> On Wed, 2007-03-10 at 19:09 +0200, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> > JP Rosevear wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 10:24 -0500, Michael Wolf wrote:
> > > > ** Workflow
> > > >
> > > > Doing our ongoing development in GNOME:UNSTABLE will make it easier
> > > > for anyone interested in contributing to do so.
> > >
> > > When will we start this? ie should we be submitting internally only
> > > still for now?
> >
> > It is not a technical problem, it is a work-flow problem. Please consult
> > with aj and coolo, what can be done to not conflict between ongoing
> > development of GNOME:UNSTABLE and ongoing development of Factory.
>
> I think the right thing to do is to ask the autobuild team to reject
> submissions for anything that'll go into /work/SRC/all/GNOME unless it
> comes from GNOME:UNSTABLE or another repository in the build service.
Well, then we need a way, how people could do global changes in GNOME
packages (e. g. BuildRequires after package rename / branch, new
CFLAGS,...).
> > We might use technical solutions to solve this problem - e. g. making
> > snapshot of Factory packages in a moment of starting separate
> > development in G:U, but success ratio of an automatic spec and patch
> > merging is not as good as one could expect (I guess ~70%).
>
> I think any plan for this that requires any manual merges, other than merges
> within a single branch (in the terms of a proper version control system)
> or project, would be a real mistake.
Standard version control system does not work well for packages - spec
files changes are concentrated in preamble and %prep and you get a lot
of rejects there.
--
Best Regards / S pozdravem,
Stanislav Brabec
software developer
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Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966
190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951
Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/
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