On 9. 10. 2013 at 17:31:38, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: > Quoting tim.lauridsen@xxxxxxxxx (2013-10-09 16:48:31) > > > the original urlgrabber maintainer left long time ago, but the yum team > > adopted the code, because it was critical to yum, so this is cause why > > there has been no upstream release. > > yum shold make upstream releases in more frequently, instead of adding > > very > > large patches to latest git HEAD. > > yum-utils releases was made by me, but I have not had so much time to > > spend > > on yum-utils, so there has not been any releases for a long time. > > My beef was mostly with python-urlgrabber (since that's used by more tools > than just yum), but Zdenek managed to get permissions to do upstream > releases so current F20/rawhide has been updated and is mostly fine. > There's few minor problems and obsolete parts but that can be worked out > later... > > > dnf is not in a state to replace yum yet, and it will take awhile to get > > there, a lot of tool uses yum api and dnf has no stable api yet, so yum > > will properly stay here for years to come > > so there is no excuses to not make upstream releases more frequent :) > > I really like relase-early-release-often but for that you need a nice > testuite so you don't screw up too badly :-) Now I am wondering how dnf is > going to approach testing, regressions etc. It sure would be nice to have a > big testuite for such a component. Dnf has a huge test suite and all code that goes in must have test coverage. Thanks Jan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
