https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54034

--- Comment #7 from Antoine "hashar" Musso <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> Maybe someone can explain to what it means to upload the package?

Whenever a package under operations/debs has been changed, someone from ops has
to fetch it on a build machine, create the package and upload it on
apt.wikimedia.org.

When the package has been properly tested on labs under Ubuntu Precise, its
probably less than half an hour to achieve the process.

To prevent anyone from getting root access on the cluster via a malicious
package, only Wikimedia roots are allowed to upload a package on
apt.wikimedia.org, most of them are part of the operations team which use RT as
an issue tracker.  So the process is roughly:

1) fill a RT
2) ping ops folks in #wikimedia-operations
3) repeat

Even internally, it usually takes me a few weeks to get any package uploaded
there.


> If it's a lot of work it might be faster for me to create an own repository?

You can also upload the package on launchpad.net :-) They have the concept of
ppa repositories which are more liberal and publicly available.  That being
said, if the package has to land on the Wikimedia cluster, it MUST be uploaded
on apt.wikimedia.org.

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