On 15/07/2013 16:14, Andrzej Szeszo wrote:
Hi AllAt least for now, /hipster contribution process should stay as it is: pull requests/direct commits to the github repo. The team is too small to consider any other options at the moment in my opinion. I reckon /dev can stay as it is now as well. Jon Tibble is working on getting the repo updated. When he's done, the update should not break thousands of existing OI installations. There is a risk of making many users unhappy if we were to use /hipster repo to replace /dev. People who are interested in stable release are generally using OI on the servers. I think future formal hipster-based OI releases could have packages split into two sets. The "core" one and the "all the rest" one. Let's learn from the mistakes made in the past and successes of the other distros and make supported "core" package set small (additional packages supported on best effort basis). Also, it would make a lot of sense to have per-release repositories, like pkg.openindiana.org/<something>/<"core"> and pkg.openindiana.org/<something>/<"all the rest">. "something" could be release codename, date tag, some version number, etc. It would make it easier to manage things that way. Repos would update quicker, mirrors would be easier to create and be smaller. It would prevent users from accidentally replacing all of their system files each time new release is made (in case of publishing each release to /stable, we have BEs, but still...). It would be easier to get rid of old unsupported releases going forward. Also, pkg5 solver would have less metadata to deal with and would work faster!
This is totally confusing. Is there a release, and when and where will it happen ? Sounds like hipster is sometimes doing a release, but dev/ (aka Ken) does this also. Or is hipster a ever changing sandbox without release ? For what ? Sounds like alll responsibility for making something stable should be laid on Ken's shoulders picking the right pieces from hipster to put it into /dev to ever get someting useful from hipster. And no, there are indeed people outside who regularily use more than "core" (whatever that means, there are more than enough "cores" outside, we don't need another)... -- Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.f.Meteorology a.Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology http://www.kit.edu Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026
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