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Kevin Horton wrote:
> On 2 Jul 2005, at 10:26, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
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>> Kevin Horton wrote:
>> |
>> | I don't know what to call the new tree - I originally thought that
>> | "testing" could work, but after looking at the way Debian does 
>> things  I
>> | think this would simply cause confusion.  How about "kamikaze"?    That
>> | would certainly push the idea that people should only enable   this new
>> | tree if they were prepared for things to break.
>>
>> I agree with you. Well, almost :). We need a way to validate package
>> submissions, and build them automatically. If the validation and 
>> building go
>> ~ okay then they go into this new tree. From the new tree they can be
>> automatically moved to unstable after, say 3 weeks. The move to  unstable
>> could be stopped by committer if someone deems it necessary, but  the
>> idea
>> should be that things make the unstable tree unless someone stops it.
>>
>> I also don't agree with the kamikaze name, Japanese users would 
>> likely use
>> such a tree in preference to stable.
>>
> 
> I like the idea of automatic validation and building before 
> automatically putting them in the new tree.  The build process should 
> probably be monitored to look for things that get installed directly 
> into /sw without going through the fink.build directory first.  I've 
> had a couple of draft .info files that did that until I sorted out  the
> install scripts.
> 
Acutally the build as nobody option should make sure that you cannot install
into /sw

> I'm not wedded to the kamikaze name.  How about "unvalidated", or 
> "very_unstable"?
> 
Actually something like "automatic" seems more viable.

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