Hello, A quick cut & paste from Debian policy with minor adjustments for OSCAR packages policy.
1) stable : This is the current `released' version of an OSCAR package (i.e. included in a tarball with the core glue & core packages). A new version is released approximately every 3 months after the development code has been frozen for a week of testing. Once the distribution is stable only major bug fixes are allowed. 2) unstable : This package value refers to the development part of the OSCAR packages. New packages, new upstream versions of packages and bug fixes go into the unstable directory tree. Download from this distribution at your own risk. 3) experimental : The packages with this distribution value are deemed by their maintainers to be high risk. Oftentimes they represent early beta or developmental packages from various sources that the maintainers want people to try, but are not ready to be a part of the other parts of the OSCAR distribution. Often those packages were never tested but by their authors. Those packages do not necessarily agree with the OSCAR package policy and may work with one well defined distribution and version number. Download (and use!) at your own risk. ================== Life and death of packages ===================== Here is my proposed way of setting the packages status : "Stable" packages are distributed in the OSCAR tarball when released are made. They should be well tested by their author and fully compliant with the OSCAR package policy (up to date description, open licence, maitainer, documentation, LSB compliant, ...). A package state is set to stable when the OSCAR-core group decide it (teleconf) after 4 or more developer ask for its inclusion in the "stable" state. "Unstable" packages are not distributed in the OSCAR tarball. They can be included in the "jumbo" tarball and have the mention "use at your own risk". They have been tested by some OSCAR developpers and conform to some but not all of the OSCAR policy. A package is set to "unstable" state when more than 4 developers (outside of the package author/maintainer group!) ask for it (mailing list). "Experimental" packages : all new package start in this category. Brand new feature, untested package, packages under heavy development are all in this category. Not distributed, accessible only with OPD Ben -- Benoit des Ligneris Etudiant au Doctorat -- Ph. D. Student Web : http://benoit.des.ligneris.net/ Mydynaweb Developpe(u)r: http://mydynaweb.net/ Centre de Calcul Scientifique http://ccs.USherbrooke.ca/ OSCAR Symposium-May 11-14 http://oscar2003.ccs.USherbrooke.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
