[kubuntu-devel] Discussing an "Official" Kubuntu PPA scheme

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:27:35PM -0400, 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)

I believe that launchpad now supports multiple PPAs per team so maybe
we should use that.

I think Kubuntu-updates-testing is needed for backporting beta
releases (e.g. KDE 4.3 beta will come out soon).  I think this is
different from experimental which we do use for genuinely experimental
packages (a new release of network-manager say).

So I'm thinking create a team  kubuntu-ppa and PPAs in it

- updates      for minor new releases such as 4.2.3 that haven't been
               tested enough to go to ubuntu updates
- backports    for new releases such as KDE 4.3.0 that haven't been
               tested enough to be moved to Ubuntu backports
- beta         for backports of KDE 4.3 beta
- experimental for random new packages and also used for building
               non-embargoed packages before moving to backports or
               beta
- kubuntu-ninjas  embargoed packages

This doesn't reduce the number of PPAs but they did all exist for a
reason.  Possibly beta and backports can be one, if you don't want
beta you can just not add the archive until the .0 comes out.

Jonathan