one face to the customer: #2

2010/6/16 Thiago Macieira <[email protected]>

> Hello
>
> We in Qt are wondering what the best option for packaging Qt for MeeGo is.
> The
> current situation is that we release a tarball and someone, at some point,
> applies some unknown patches and makes an RPM.
>
> Since Qt is a central piece of MeeGo, we'd like to have more visibility of
> that process. Especially on the "unknown patches" part.
>
> So my question is: how should this process be?
>
> I can think of two possibilities:
> 1) Qt is responsible for the source tarball only, with someone in the MeeGo
> team is clearly responsible for the packaging and owns the patches applied;
>
> 2) Qt is responsible for the source tarball and the RPMs for MeeGo (x86 and
> ARM). Whether the actual build is done on our hardware or in the MeeGo OBS
> is
> irrelevant.
>
> More likely than not, in option 2, there would be no patches applied to Qt
> and
> it would be a stock & pristine build. (Note: the current patches are
> unknown
> to us, so this option also implies that they go away unreviewed)
>
> To be understood: yes, we're offering to take ownership of the build. We
> can
> just as well not take on that responsibility -- but in that case, we'll
> rebuild Qt for the Nokia MeeGo devices and remove any patches we don't know
> about.
>
> Either way, we're setting ourselves up for executing QA on the MeeGo
> reference
> platforms (continuous integration, regression testing, release testing). We
> cannot provide the same level of QA or hardening for other devices.
>
> So this is a question to all: what is the preferred method?
>
> --
> Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
>  Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Development Frameworks
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