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

[Clay Weber]

On Monday 27 April 2009 9:28:28 am Jonathan Riddell 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

My thinking on this, from a more end-user point of view:

updates, backports(ppa) and normal backports (Unsupported Updates) will be a 
little confusing I think, though I am sure the descriptions on each ppa would 
clarify that.

I agree on -experimental and -beta  being merged, or perhaps have one called -
bleeding-edge or something along those lines, though I realize that is just 
semantics


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