On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 11:10 -0400, Ed Cashin wrote: > On Mon Jul 20 11:01:12 EDT 2009, e...@echoreply.us wrote: > ... > > I'm packaging AoE for a new server distro that hopes to release next > > month. What I'm going to do is just bundle & replace the stock mainline > > driver with our aoe-server and aoe-cluster-server packages. > > By "stock mainline driver" you mean the aoe driver found in the > kernel.org kernel as re-distributed by some distro, right?
Yes. Our packaging policy is rather unique. User's have the option to turn on beta or alpha repositories to get beta (or even alpha) code, rather than pinning a certain package on the repositories of our next release. This works on a per package basis. When they want beta, they'll get just that .. beta code directly from the people who wrote it, with minimal or no patches from us. Any patches from us would be trivial (i.e. the addition of our init scripts, etc). The idea is allowing people to get the changes they've been waiting for independent of our release schedule, again - on a per package basis. The side effect we're hoping for is more people testing beta code. If it works for them, great .. they can continue to use and test it .. otherwise a rollback will be simple. This makes users happy and helps us plan releases based on their feedback. We're doing it with apt-rpm, its not yet fully cooked. > There's the RSS feed for the AoE Proving Grounds, where there > are pre-releases and experimental patches. > > http://coraid.typepad.com/aoe_linux_proving_grounds/ Thanks, subscribed. Cheers, --Tim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Aoetools-discuss mailing list Aoetools-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/aoetools-discuss
