On 7/26/13 9:13 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina wrote: > On 07/27/2013 12:08 AM, Matt Turner wrote: >> Can we make autobuilds go to /experimental and then only move them to >> /releases when someone actually tests them?
Very interesting. :) I had a similar idea. I think it's great. >> Looking at bugzilla and listening in #gentoo-releng, it's kind of >> embarrassing how often someone downloads a Live CD only to find out >> that networking is totally broken by a udev upgrade, or something to >> that effect. Yes - and it's very important to make that first experience with the distro as good as possible. The bugs are usually not fixed quickly enough anyway. I'd like to add a suggestion - document the processes better and allow more people to contribute. >> We don't commit version bumps straight to stable; I don't see why we >> do with release media. > > It's been an odd week for me agreeing with people but yeah, I completely > agree. I think we *need* to keep the autobuilds going as often as > possible to detect obvious breakage, but there is no reason they > shouldn't be marked experimental. +1 > The real question is, how realistic can we make a process of testing and > moving to stable? We have arch teams, we have users... when several users say it's OK I think it is OK. As compared to a script pushing it to the website just because it compiled. Paweł
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