PPA

Matthew East mdke at ubuntu.com
Wed Sep 5 07:08:16 UTC 2007


Hi,

On 05/09/07, Jordan Mantha <mantha at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I have two basic ideas about using PPA for the doc team. They
> basically revolve around getting our stuff out to testers.
>
> 1) we can do more often uploads than we do to the Ubuntu archives.
> roughly daily or weekly if we want.

Can this be automated?

> 2) we can backport the current WIP documentation to the current stable
> release so people can test/proofread the docs without having to
> install the development release.

Ok, although I suspect that packages for the development release will
also work on previous releases without much trouble so people running
previous releases can just add the PPA to their sources.list,
depending on what else we put in the PPA.

> > Should we encourage anyone to upload new packages, have specific rules
> > about what to upload, or what?
>
> We just gotta be careful with the versions, and I'd say we should
> limit it to people who have commit access to the repo.

Is it ok to use the same version numbering that would be used for
uploading packages to the archive? It would be a pain to maintain two
different version numbering systems in the tree.

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Matthew East
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