Hi Peter,
Peter Poeml
Nitpick: no new python is required. (Just some modules.)
Yes.
For that reason we linked some packages into the current openSUSE:Tools:Unstable project and made them build on the old distros, too.
[This is evil]
Fully agreed, that's why I brought this up.
So simple: 1) wait if it actually happens at all 2) talk to the maintainers so they are aware 3) move on. ;-)
We still could link a package with patches into openSUSE:Tools _then_.
We've already had 1), and 2) is only a solution after the fact and doesn't prevent others from breaking 'my product'. linking in the package is not the solution I'm proposing, though, it's an ugly work-around that I'd like to avoid. You and I are members of the obs team, we are used for things to break and we're used to get a quick fix, plus we don't _rely_ on obs yet for some other bread-and-butter business (like releasing a product that uses obs). Fortunately we start seeing people using obs for such jobs, where obs is a tool that's supposed to work, not the tool that is being worked on. I'd love to see more of this, a real network of obs instances, and my concern is that by iterating 1) and 2) above, the early birds shy away.
I don't like this proposal. I really don't think that anybody needs different releases of the build service at all.
At this time, this is right. But there is aneed for different Rails releases. So far non of the base python packages were API incompatible after upgrades, so _so far_ we're fine on that end. Now there's two options: 1) I, as maintainer of some Foo-foo project , need to know exactl the different API policies of the base projects I rely on 2) there's an established policy of giving new APIs a new name, and I just rely on that. Option 2) implicitely is implemented by the openSUSE releases. after release, they don't change dramatically any more.
I don't think we are going to (nor need to) maintain old releases in "maintenance-mode", we will rather move on.
I'm currently talking about the base packages, and for a foreseeable future I'm also talking about force-updating users with possibly incompatible versions by releasing new packages into the old release repo. Maybe this is just me but I'd hate to run zypper up and after that the system I just _use_ to build some packages doesn't work any more :/ S. -- Susanne Oberhauser +49-911-74053-574 SUSE -- a Novell Business OPS Engineering Maxfeldstraße 5 Processes and Infrastructure Nürnberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org