On Tuesday 16 September 2008 15:27:49 Mike Lococo wrote: > > Of course, you might want to keep your repository available for creating > > packages used by your testers before you want to release to the wider > > maemo.org community. > > Is there a reason not to use extras-devel for this kind of thing? Simply > upload the experimental packages there with no intention of promoting > them until they've evolved/been-updated enough to be ready for a wider > audience.
Personally I try to make sure packages are at least installable and not obviously broken before uploading them to extras-devel. There are many developers who have extras-devel enabled permanently and I prefer not to have a fire-drill after breaking something someone on this list is depending on! For GPE I even use an alpha/beta model: a few people in the GPE team test an alpha version out of my repos before I upload it to extras-devel (which I then announce on ITT as a beta release). I also use a personal repos to make available a daily build direct from SVN with no testing at all and to make bug fixes available early to affected people. On the other hand, for small projects like Xsisusb I just test it myself before uploading to extras-devel and don't bother with putting it in a personal repos at all. Graham _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
