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

[Antonio Augusto (Mancha)]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:28, Jonathan Riddell <jriddell at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Hey Jonathan,

This looks like a very good plan. But IMHO beta and experimental
should be merged. In my POV they are exactly the same (after all, beta
software is experimental, isn't it?).
If by experimental you mean alpha quality packages than these should
go to kubuntu-ninjas.

I just don't know what you mean by "embargoed packages". Are these
packages that shouldn't be made available because they are alpha
quality? If that's the case then yeah, ninjas seems like a good place.

Updates and backports looks good, accomplishing their roles.

Cheers,
KM