Re: Update Sugar packages

2012/8/21 Lars Vogdt <[email protected]>:
> On Di 21 Aug 2012 00:31:10 CEST Xin Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jip: we do the same for old releases (means: the OBS repo is in a
>>> "build disabled" state). So users who have added the repo to their list
>>> would only get new packages once some packager enabled build for that
>>> repository explizitely.
>>>
>>> That is the fact in Education for 11.4 already - and I like to do it
>>> also for 12.1 and maybe even 12.2 once 12.2 is released (objections?).
>>>
>>> That way, packagers can concentrate on the upcoming release and just
>>> need to touch a package for old releases once a user requests an update
>>> or the packager wants to maintain it for old releases.
>>>
>>> That would drastically reduce the "refresh time" of the Education repo
>>> for endusers as the repo metadata will only change if an important
>>> update is released for their distribution.
>>>
>>
>> What about branching a subproject based on each Education release?
>> That way further development will not affect it, and we can easily
>> apply patches in that branch when some bug is encountered.
>
>
> Well, this was not necessary until now. I'm just aware of a handful packages
> (from > 400) that were reported via Bugzilla and needed a fix for an old
> release. Patching them and re-enabling build in the Education project itself
> was much easier than providing a branch of the whole Education project.
> Further development was also not affected as those packages were broken on
> younger releases, too.
>

I see.

If I got it right, active development period of Education release
begins near new openSUSE release, so there will be little conflict
between maintenance time of old one and development time of the new.
When a new version is released, old one will be obsoleted soon.

is that right?

> But I won't prevent a branch if someone else really likes it - I'm just
> curious what would be better than now for the Education project: currently
> nobody has to take care of any branch or sub-project. Everything is in the
> plain Education project and development takes also place there: just for the
> upcoming releases only.
>
> With kind regards,
> Lars
>



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