Development workflow, and official "Edubuntu PPA"'s...

[Jeremy Bicha]

Sounds like a great idea!

Jeremy

> ...We have a team within Edubuntu, called "edubuntu-dev", it consists of the
> current Edubuntu developers.  You can see the team's page here.
>
> https://www.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-dev/
>
> You'll notice that, about halfway down the page, we have 3 PPA's, namely:
> Edubuntu Testing Archive
> Edubuntu Stable Updates
> Edubuntu Work in Progress
>
> Work in Progress for "Bleeding edge" or alpha quality work, "Testing" for beta
> quality packages, and "Stable Updates" for updates to packages that are
> currenly stable, but may have a bugfix that we can apply that hasn't yet made
> it to the official archives.
>
> Per LaserJock's suggestion, I'd like to propose that the developers, and the
> users, start taking advantage of this as the "Semi official" Edubuntu updates
> repo, over and above the official Ubuntu-sponsored updates.  It has several
> advantages:
>
> 1) Users who wish to receive "more frequent" updates may add the appropriate
>   PPA to their apt config, and gain the benefits.
> 2) Users who do NOT want to have anything other than the officially sponsored
>   updates can simply ignore this ppa.
> 3) People who would like to become Edubuntu developers have a much lower
>   barrier to entry.  After doing a bit of packaging or bugfixing work to prove
>   their worth, the Edubuntu Community Council can simply vote to have them as
>   part of the "edubuntu-dev" team.  This gives them access to the
>   "edubuntu-dev" PPA's.  If they choose, they can use their development work,
>   when they've done enough of it, to eventually apply for official MOTU-ship.
>   Or not, as they so choose.
> 4) It's a "well known address" where we can point people to to potentially
>   receive more frequent updates.
>
> To me, it seems like a good course of action.  By way of kicking it off, today
> I'll push up a new version of Sabayon to "Testing".  This new version will
> allow you to apply Sabayon profiles by group, in addition to the usual by-user.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Scott
>
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