On Fri, 25 Jul 2008, Susanne Oberhauser wrote:
Martin Mohring, one of our busy contributors and testers of openSUSE:Tools pointed out that he had created an openSUSE:Tools:Devel project on his build server because he had noticed that quite a few people use openSUSE:Tools:UNSTABLE and he doesn't want to break them while they are using more extensive testing.
As I like three staged integration environments (one for Development, one for Testing and one for Release), and as openSUSE:Tools:UNSTABLE actually is that Testing environment for many, I've added a devel stage:
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=openSUSE%3ATools%3ADevel
So now we have
openSUSE:Tools the currently recommended, released version
openSUSE:Tools:UNSTABLE the upcoming release, an ongoing beta version
openSUSE:Tools:Devel very current packages, svn snapshots, this may break at any time, only use this if you are actively participating in development and alpha testing
Couldn't that be solved by a more general approach? Implement a delay-support in the obs.
Have only openSUSE:Tools:UNSTABLE, but do not release any package to the download system until - at least xxx days have passed, - no repository changes happened for that package - and building did not fail in the xxx days (much like the Debian system). The development and alpha testers can use API access to get the files.
Add an "I'm sure" button to release singular packages earlier.
Would save lots of harddisk space.
Ciao The Intention of openSUSE:Tools:Devel is really that of a more development branch. There are linked packages to contributed Factory
Dirk Stöcker wrote: packages, which may break at any time for example (and did). And I try out now actively newer versions of either new packages to be put inside or new features like putting hermes into the obs-server package. It is like released, a branch and the main trunc. But since we link to factory sources also, it can break at any time. I have noticed that already quite some people do use :Unstable in there local OBS. I do not want to disturb there circles. As for the Harddisk space: I could switch off "publish" of the packages if that is requested. Martin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org