On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 12:53 PM Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <b...@lindev.ch> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> rolling is looking good so far -- hasn't broken badly, and has quite a few 
> nice updates we don't want to bother 4.0 users with.
>
> But I'm a bit concerned about minor updates that get pushed into cooker not 
> making it to rolling (even though rolling is where in the end releases will 
> happen), probably because people [including myself, got to get into it] tend 
> to forget about the small updates once they're there. The auto-updater also 
> never pushes stuff to rolling.
>
> I wonder if we should reverse the logic here a bit: Right now, we push stuff 
> from cooker to rolling/testing manually.
> It may be better to have a way to manually mark packages that are not ready 
> yet (e.g. toolchain updates that need more extensive testing) and 
> automatically build everything not marked that way in rolling after a couple 
> of days.
>
> Keeping cooker and rolling separate is probably necessary, because for some 
> things they will diverge A LOT at some point (imagine the Qt 5 -> Qt 6 
> transition that will likely happen next year... Got to get cooker to 
> Qt6/Plasma6 quickly while keeping rolling stable).
>
> Any thoughts/opinions?
>

Ignoring the fact that I think that the scheme in general is going to
be hard to maintain, I think we need a button to queue a commit to be
built for rolling and cooker at the same time. That way, it's a lot
easier to get stuff pushed into rolling.


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