On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 20:04 +0300, ext Ed Bartosh wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 12:54 +0300, ext Ferenc Szekely wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It has been a long time, so time to write to all of you :) > > > > We had a good chat with some of the microb folks here in my room > > yesterday. The conclusion was that we should perhaps offer a 'sandbox' > > repository for garage projects. This would be a place where any > > project could upload packages, make sure that they are installable on > > the environment they are targeting for (like stock Nokia N800) etc. > > The sandbox would serve as a "staging environment" before pushing the > > packages to "extras". > > > > The repo will not be on "repository.maemo.org", but on "garage". This > > would hopefully hide it enough from users who could accidentally run > > into troubles using this sandbox on their tablets. > > > > The repo maintenance would be done with volunteers. I could establish > > the basic environment, make sure that your uploaded packages are > > processed etc, but I would like to get your help cleaning up the > > sandbox every now and then. > > > > Yeah, it is yet another repository, I know. But it could perhaps take > > away some work from those of you who are running an own repo today. So > > what do you think? > > > I totally support the idea. For me it would be very useful to have some > repository to put applications for testing before releasing them to > extras. I'd not call it sandbox but extras-devel or something similar to > emphasize its primary usage scenario. > I can help to maintain it if needed. > extras-testing would be even better. It's clearly says that this repository is for testing applications on their way to extras.
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