PPAs under stable release scheme

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> At the moment we have three PPAs:
> 
>  * https://edge.launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive/ppa -- stable releases
>  * https://edge.launchpad.net/~bzr-beta-ppa/+archive/ppa -- which
> actually primarily means "release candidates" at the moment
>  * https://edge.launchpad.net/~bzr-nightly-ppa/+archive/ppa -- nightly
> from trunk
> 
> Under the new release process
> <http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/developers/cycle.html> we could
> potentially identify a few different channels:
> 
>  * nightly builds, but from the stable branch (currently 2.0) - this
> would presumably be easy to add by just running another instance of
> the robot
>  * betas from trunk -- this probably makes sense in more than just
> name to put into the ~bzr-beta-ppa
>  * release candidates of the stable builds -- this could be a separate
> archive, or they could go in the beta ppa, or they could go into the
> main stable PPA
> 
> Since we set up this structure, Launchpad has gained the ability for a
> single team to have more than one archive, so we can use that if we
> want more PPAs rather than creating more teams.  I don't think it's
> worth changing what already exists and breaking the URLs.
> 
> In practice I don't think any change is really necessary beyond maybe
> nightly builds from the stable branch, and clarifying the
> documentation.  During the period we're doing rcs for a stable release
> there are unlikely to be any new betas, and we should get good testing
> by putting them into the beta ppa.
> 

I don't see a need for nightly builds from the 'stable' branch, given
that it isn't really changing. And things like that should probably just
go into the 'beta' ppa. Just a thought.

John
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