On Friday, 31 March 2017 23:57:25 CEST Todd Rme wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 4:44 PM, Daniele
wrote: Il 31/03/2017 22:22, Luca Beltrame ha scritto:
In data venerdì 31 marzo 2017 22:14:26 CEST, Daniele ha scritto:
Yes but what if $FOO is broken and I need $FOO working ? Give me a valid fallback (previuos stable release) and I would happy to test beta
Again, you added those repositories knowing they were unsupported, didn't you?
Again, unsupported stable != unsupported beta. With stable it's a calculated risk.
It's not like we *want* to break things, but (seldomly, thanks to both upstream now adopting a CI build system and our own work with openQA in Unstable*) it happens every now and then. For example, prior to the beta, we had breakage in KDE:Qt5 when the first singlespec Python packages landed there.
P.S.: Putting the 5.8 Plasma beta prior to the Leap release in a development project uncovered all sorts of bugs before they hit final users (some truly bad ones were also fixed by the KDE team members[1]).
Great but development project shold be in a different repo ;) It's doable ? Fine. It is not ? Fine. Nothing more to say for me.
As others have said, it is doable, but someone would need to do it. Development, by definition, happens in a devel repository. So someone would need to maintain a second repository where they manually cherry-pick every change from the devel repository. There just isn't time for the existing KDE team to do that, it would almost double their workload.
You don't have to do this. The only thing you have to do is provide a backup repository. Copy everything from the original repository to the backup repository, update the packages in the original repository with the beta packages, and keep the backup repository around for only a couple of weeks in case there is a serious problem and people need to do a fallback. This provides people with a fallback possibility and also saves the KDE team a lot of work. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org