Discussing an "Official" Kubuntu PPA scheme

[Roderick B. Greening]

Sounds reasonable to me. I'm all for reducing complexity, and reducing the 
number of PPA's sounds like a good first step.

I'm sure others will have comments more profound than I...

Cheers,

Rod.
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On April 23, 2009 3:57:35 pm Jonathan wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Congrats on the release, etc. I think this is really going to be a good
> one.
>
> :)
>
> More to the point, I would like to discuss/propose a scheme for the
> "official" PPAs that Kubuntu uses. Currently we have four or five PPAs
> lying around, which is confusing for everyone. We have:
>
> - Kubuntu-members (unused for a while)
> - Kubuntu-members-kde4
> - Kubuntu-experimental
> - Kubuntu-updates-testing
> - Kubuntu-ninjas (private, for staging new upstream releases that are
> embargoed upstream)
>
> Currently, the unofficial scheme we have for using these PPAs is:
> - Use kubuntu-members-kde4 for pushing backported versions of new stable
> KDE/KDE-related software releases
> - Use kubuntu-experimental to publish backported alpha/beta versions of KDE
> software found in the development release of Kubuntu
> - Use kubuntu-ninjas to stage all KDE/KDE-related software releases
>
> Kubuntu-members has been seemingly abandoned, probably since everything is
> KDE4 now. Kubuntu-updates-testing has been abandoned too, and has mostly
> been superseded by kubuntu-ninjas. I propose that we adopt the following as
> the "official" unofficial PPA scheme going forward:
>
> Official PPAs:
> - Switch back to Kubuntu-members for for pushing backported versions of new
> stable KDE/KDE-related software releases
> - Use kubuntu-experimental to publish backported alpha/beta versions of KDE
> software found in the development release of Kubuntu
> - Use kubuntu-ninjas for staging embargoed new upstream releases for the
> development version of Kubuntu (also for staging backports for kubuntu-
> members)
>
> Remove the following PPAs:
> - Remove kubuntu-members-kde4 altogether, since Kubuntu is now a KDE4
> distro and no distinction needs to be made
> - Remove kubuntu-updates-testing, obsoleted by kubuntu-ninjas
>
>
> We could give the members of #kubuntu-testing the passwords for the private
> PPA, but that channel seems somewhat dead..... Maybe that needs to change
> too.
>
> The proposed scheme brings us down from five PPAs to a sensible three PPAs.
> Comments, suggestions welcome.

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