On Wednesday 13 of January 2010, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 22:18 +0100, Marco Röben wrote:
STABLE: testing ground for updates of the recent opensuse version
I don't actually think this is the maintainer's definition of STABLE. It was at least meant to be "the version of KDE from the current openSUSE version, backported to previous openSUSE versions".
It is part of the definition. STABLE contains what the latest openSUSE release contains, including the online updates. As such, it is a testing ground for online updates, since we put them there first and with a delay (e.g. after smaller fixes accumulate) we release them as online updates. STABLE also being practice a backport of that specific version to older openSUSE releases is a result of the fact that we also build KDE repos on older distros. When reasonable, which means that we see it as nice effort of something that is low effort - if something in STABLE non-trivially breaks on older distros, it'll just get disabled.
I know with the 4.3.4 thing they put it in there for 11.2 to get some additional testing before the maintenance update, but I don't think that changes the idea of the repository
Testing before maintenance updates is usually done from the various project repositories, but there is no real standard for it. Sometimes it's done in the maintainer's home: repository. Maybe there should be a standard repository where updates are put before being 'officially' released. Something like openSUSE:/11.2:/Update:/Test
This repo is used for testing online updates right before they are released and is not KDE specific. I.e. KDE changes for online updates go to STABLE first, then are submitted for 11.2, where they first go to Update:Test and finally to Update. Our STABLE is an extra, we use it to help us with the work.
for example, which is there but doesn't seem to be used for very much
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