On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 11:52 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > At the moment the GNOME updates in Fedora are a bit of chaotic affair. > They mostly work, but only because of people like mclasen who spend > hours and hours building packages and putting everything together > manually. For 3.3.92 I experimented doing a mega-update and trying to > get all the 3.3.92 builds in one place, and working with kalev on a > google spreadsheet to make sure everything was built in good time, and > nothing was left behind. > > For the GNOME 3.4.0 release, I'm asking people to copy this pattern, > and try to get all the builds into *one* update rather than 90% of the > builds in one mega-update and then 10% in random updates that other > people have filed. If this works, I'm intending to do the 3.4.1 update > as one update as well. > > So, TLDR. If you're packaging a GNOME package that's just had a 3.3.92 > upstream release and is about to have a 3.4.0 release, please build > the package like normal, but don't file an update. Instead add the > build ID to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtzJKpbiGX1zdGJzeU9waFJFZmgyQzBuN2VxU0lxbHc > and then I'll pick up the build for the mega update. > > Hopefully this makes the updates system easier to QA, as GNOME is more > and more interconnected, and it' just not possible to QA updates when > you have a 3.3.91 version of gnome-settings-daemon and 3.4.1 version > of gnome-screenshot. Thanks a lot for this, Richard. It'll make QAing the updates much more manageable. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
