On 8/21/10 5:00 PM, Anders Logg wrote: > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:24:47PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 16:49 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote: >>> On 8/21/10 4:34 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote: >>>> On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 15:58 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote: >>>>> On 8/21/10 3:48 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote: >>>>>> On Sat, 2010-08-21 at 15:40 +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote: >>>>>>> On 8/21/10 2:07 PM, Garth N. Wells wrote: >>>>>>>> It seems that we're all happy with the supported/contributed >>>>>>>> distinction, so could we split the supported and contributed files into >>>>>>>> separate directories? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Garth >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Aug 21 2010, Harish Narayanan wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 8/21/10 4:34 AM, Anders Logg wrote: >>>>>>>>>> On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:19:01AM +0200, Anders Logg wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:23:10PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>> Would it good to split the platform files into 'supported' and >>>>>>>>>>>> 'contributed'? We can test 'supported' platforms (recent, widely >>>>>>>>>>>> used recent OSs that we really want to work), but still allow users >>>>>>>>>>>> to contribite. >>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>> Garth >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> That sounds like a good idea to me. >>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> Dorsal could write a warning for contributed platforms that they may >>>>>>>>>>> not work. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> I guess it would also be good to list who is maintaining each of the >>>>>>>>>> supported platforms so we know who to blame when things break. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Or who to direct support queries on the mailing list to. I can >>>>>>>>> maintain/support Snow Leopard (64-bit) for now as it is my primary OS. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Would it be easier just to add a boolean flag to the packages? >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I would prefer separate directories - that would make it very clear for >>>>>> us and users which are supported and which are not. We can focus on >>>>>> making sure that all platforms in 'supported' are working, and over time >>>>>> shift files form 'supported' to 'contributed'. >>>>> >>>>> OK, I agree and think this is a good plan. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Will you create the directories? I don't know, or want to know, how to >>>> look in two directories using bash. >>> >>> I will do it. Before which, I'd like to classify existing (future) >>> platforms into the following. I'll start, others can modify it. >>> >>> deprecated (will be removed): >>> >>> bigblue >>> etch >>> fedora10 >>> fedora11 >>> gutsy >>> hardy >>> intrepid >>> jaunty >>> tiger >>> opensuse11.1 >>> rhel4 >>> xp >>> >> >> Looks fine. >> >>> >>> supported: >>> >>> lenny (by whom?) >>> sid (by whom?) >>> fedora12 (by whom?) >>> fedora13 (by whom?) >>> fenics (harish) >>> karmic (by whom?) >>> lucid (by whom?) >>> maverick (by whom?) >>> leopard (by whom?) >>> snowleopard (harish) >>> opensuse11.2 (by whom?) >>> opensuse11.3 (by whom?) >>> rhel5 (by whom?) >>> >>> >>> contributed: >>> >>> gentoo >>> >> >> How about we throw them all in contributed, and move files across as we >> test? > > :-) > > That's what I did, although I moved a few of them to 'supported' > already since we're working actively on those. > > Should it be 'contrib' or 'contributed'? The latter is more in line > with 'supported' and 'deprecated' but 'contrib' is a common term for > this kind of stuff.
I prefer 'contributed'. It just looks strange in a folder with 'deprecated' and 'supported'. Harish _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dorsal Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dorsal More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
