On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 04:55:01PM -0400, Chuck Peters wrote: > I would like to see someone take the lead on making sure we have latest > stable releases of some software.
I agree. Thanks for the suggestion. I'd like to see us more up-to-date, too, and I agree with having a session discussing some ideas. Note that we're *very* close to Feature Freeze now, and after that we'll need to make a very good case and apply to the release team for exceptions. But we can certainly talk about it, do what we can before feature freeze, and work on a plan to get updates in sooner next cycle. One idea to get us started: I worked with Daviey on http://reqorts.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/ubuntu-server/merges.html to get this report working again this cycle, as a first step towards keeping things better updated. But this report is still a little unwieldy. I'd like to add a supression list to this, to hide (or put to the bottom) packages that we (server team) can actively acknowledge in the report. I imagine that this would work with something like a CSV file that we could keep updated in bzr, with package, version and reason fields. Then anything where Debian is behind the version column for a particular entry would be moved to the bottom. Example: ---8<--- vsftpd,3.0.2-3,Insignificant changes; no need to merge. screen,*,Substantional merge; generally left by the server team. python-novaclient,2:2.14,Ubuntu is currently ahead of Debian on this package ---8<--- Also, perhaps we should put outstanding merges above outstanding syncs (which appear after Debian Import Freeze). Another idea: mark top level packages that Server users care about more directly (so that we can place them above libraries and support packages, for which the latest version matters less). Example: the versions of vsftpd, exim4 and php5 probably matter more to users than the versions of libibverbs, screen and socat that we ship. All of these I can just work on without a session, though. -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
