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Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting



On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:03:52PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Will early-release information be available to the porters? Or do
> porters only start building their security updates once the official
> advisory has gone out?

Why can't porters join the security team?
 
> >Not necessarily. I imagine it such that the porters set up their own pull from
> >unstable, the same way amd64 does now. They can set up testing themselves
> >(remember, dak is in the archive now) so they can run their own testing in
> >parallel to the mainline one.
> What a huge waste of manpower, done seven times in a row.

Hopefully not that huge, as the tools have already been written. Perhaps there
can be a single package pool for all SCC/Tier-2 arches so it only has to be
done once.

 - David Nusinow



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