Re: PROPOSAL: "Staging Areas"
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Jules Bean wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Santiago Vila wrote:
> >
> > > This is a good idea, but I have yet another idea:
> > >
> > > dists/stable
> > > dists/unstable
> > > dists/experimental
> > >
> > > i.e. move experimental above unstable and use it as the "staging area".
> > > [...]
> >
> > There is, however, a technical advantage to having distinct staging areas
> > for specific projects, such as getting all of the gtk-* in sync.
>
> Which would be the technical disadvantage of having a common stage area
> (dists/experimental) for all projects?
>
> As long as different projects do not share package names, what kind of
> problems would be expected to be found?
The fact that people involved in testing new foobar releases might find it
irritating when they end up automatically updating to new versions of gtk
(because the gtk group is playing clever C/R/P games).
Jules
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