Hi Phil, Am 12.05.2011 um 20:01 schrieb Philip Brown: > On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't understand all the fuzz about this. The previous workflow looked >> like this: >> >> pkgsubmissions@ -> Release Manager -> current >> >> The proposed new workflow looks like this: >> >> csw-upload-pkg -> unstable -> QA Team -> current > > Eh? where did this "qa team" get mentioned? I see no mention of any > such "QA team". > What I DO see (reading Ben's original email in this thread), is: > > - Automatic, immediate publishing to "unstable". > - Automatic publishing to "current", after 2 weeks and no bugs filed. > > There is then an unsubstantiated claim of, > "Users are free to pull from unstable directly (just as they can in > debian), but most will wait for current. " > > "most will wait" is unsubstantiated. no-one knows for sure what our > users will do.
I don't know what you want to say by that. Some users still subscribe to stable, some use experimental, YMMV. > Changing tracks a little, it seems that certain people in opencsw are > attempting to pull a "sun". > ie: > Get rid of all the old-school in-house "QA process", publish > "directly", and let "the internet" magically file bugs and do all the > QA work. and somehow hope that the result is good quality. At the moment most users have subscribed to current as it is the only usable catalog receiving updates. We have exactly 1 person looking at the packages before going to current (=you). While this catches bugs from time to time it also leads to completely broken catalogs from time to time. Publishing packages to unstable first give more people a chance to inspect and actually use packages before going to current. Something like the curl desaster would have been cought. Additionally, I see no reason why the same person doing QA now can't file a bug instead of writing an email. Apart from hopefully many more eyes. To stick to you web analogies: you want the cathedral instead of the bazaar. Best regards -- Dago _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
