Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-gnome (30 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 11 December 2009 12:45:43 Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> > > > On 12/10/2009 at 16:46, Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > So in case you don't want to work on factory stuff or you don't like
> > cleaning BuildRequires/Requires, there's something else you can do!
> >
> > We're planning to release GNOME 2.28.2 as a maintenance update for
> > 11.2 (see the previous thread on this topic). While 2.28.2 is not out
> > yet, we can still start updating quite a few package from 2.28.1 in
> > GNOME:STABLE:2.28.
> >
> > You can get a first list with:
> >   osc collab --project GNOME:STABLE:2.28 todo
> > (install the osc-plugin-collab from openSUSE:Tools if you don't have
> > it already)
> >
> > Most of those updates should be easy to handle. It is really important
> > to make sure to list the changes from upstream (which are usually
> > listed in the NEWS file), so that we can review the changes and decide
> > this new version is suitable for the maintenance update. You can just
> > look at how previous .changes entries are formatted to get an idea on
> > how to do it.
> >
> > Oh, and if you don't know osc collab, this line will do most of the
> > magic for you:
> >   osc collab --project GNOME:STABLE:2.28 update $package
> > (where $package can be gnome-keyring, for example)
> >
> > People in #opensuse-gnome will be glad to get you started, I'm sure
> > :-)
>
> I think the process is all fine, but I would prefer that the final SR
>  goes against a staging repo (Maybe GNOME:UNSTABLE:2.28.2 or so?). We do
>  have users that have the G:S:2.28 repo enabled in their system and
>  offering 'half a 2.28.2' might not be the desired effect, as testing it
>  at any moment just can't be done. And using the real end user as our
>  test candidates (non-voluntary) is not a nice thing to do.

You could disable publishing for the time period while you merge - and 
enable publishing again once everything is in.

I think that's what other projects do but I suggest to ask how others solve 
it,

Andreas
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