Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (216 mails)

["Joe Shaw" <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 10/3/07, Michael Wolf <maw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> GNOME 2.22.0 is about 6 months away, and openSUSE 11.0 is about 8 months
> away.  So, assuming we will ship 2.22.0 in 11.0, then when 2.22.0 ships,
> we can create a new repository [0], populated from the contents of
> GNOME:UNSTABLE at the time.  If we had real revision control, we'd call
> this a branch.  After "branching", GNOME 2.23 can go into
> GNOME:UNSTABLE.
>
> Upon creation of that new repository, a switch will be flicked, and
> Factory will pull its updates from there.
>
> Upon release of 11.0, another set of switches will be flicked: Factory
> will once again pull from GNOME:UNSTABLE, and 11.0 internally will pull
> from that new repository.
>
> Does that make sense?  Is it even what you were asking about?  (jpr on
> irc thought you were asking about something else, but I'll answer the
> question as I understood it. :))

Yep, it makes sense and was what I was asking.  Your original email
implied to me that we'd always be pulling from G:U, which obviously
isn't the right thing to do for openSUSE releases.  The additional
info was what I was after.  Sounds like you've got it all under
control. :)

Thanks,
Joe
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