Dependencies in the PPA for Jaunty

[John Ferlito]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 08:37:27PM +0200, Gary van der Merwe wrote:
> I agree with that, but there needs to be some process to get key
> plugins released at the same time.  Maybe we only need to do this for
> final releases, and not for rc releases. Then we can tell users, if
> you install a rc, you are probably going to have broken plugins, so if
> you don't want that, wait until the final comes out.
> 
> When we do a final release, I feel we should have the following done
> before any public targeted release announcements go out:
> 
> * Have compatible versions of plugins out.
> * Have key installers done, eg debs in the ppa, Windows installers out, etc..
> 
> This leaves the risk of delaying the releases, so if it is know that
> there is going to be a delay with one of the above, the RM can decide
> to send out the announcement, with a note that x is currently not
> available, but this needs to be avoided.
> 

So the current process is announcement gets made and then sometime in
the next 2 hours create the PPA for bzr and bzrtools. larstiq is
currently looking after bzr-svn.

The bzr-beta-ppa is almost guaranteed to be out of sync as we don't
have co-ordinated rc releases for all the tools.

I always ensure however that the ~bzr PPA is kept in sync by copying
all three across at the same time.

Cheers,
John

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