On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 09:51:46PM +0530, Harish Narayanan wrote: > 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'.
ok, sounds good. -- Anders _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dorsal Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dorsal More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
