On 9/21/06, Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all! I've waited until now to reply because I've thought about this suggestion for a while... smooge, thx for your suggestions! Stephen John Smoogen schrieb: > I would like to suggest the following plan for Enterprise Extras: > > 1) There are 4 channels per {Scientific/Centos} Enterprise Linux > extras > extras-devel > extras-testing > extras-updates > > [proposed naming convention: extras-2el, extras-3el, extras-4el, extras-5el] The idea is nice, but I think this is going to be much to complicated.
It is probably too complicated, but I have not seen a proposal that would be useful for an enterprise environment that is not complicated :/. What does someone who is running an enterprise environment want from "extras" A) Transperancy of the methods of how a package is created, maintained, qa'd and pushed into production. B) That the level of testing would meet what someone who is running mission critical apps have a level of trust. C) That if a package is broken, how is it broken, why is it broken, and who/when is fixing it. Basically if I am subscribing to a repository for my systems.. I want to know that it is NOT going to cause my mail cluster to stop recieving emails at 2 am because someone pushed out the brand-new release from squirrel-nuts.org of a perl module that had a side effect but no one bothered to test it before it hit extras. Enterprise level extra packages are definately where I would want someone like Ralf keeping an eye on things. You do not want a package monkey "Oh I wanted VOCP for our paging system.. so here is it for Enterprise Extras.. if it breaks.. keep all the pieces." [This is where the packager gets a 'polite' email from Ralf saying please try again in the way that only Ralf can.] -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list