Le ven 08/08/2003 à 13:20, Jeff Waugh a écrit : > <quote who="Sven Luther"> > > > What you need official woody backports, and that is something i think > > would be good to have, but i am not the one to decide about that, and i am > > not sure our current infrastructure can handle it. It is ready for it, but > > if you consider the considerable amount of network space and bandwith as > > well as the load on the autobuilders, i am not sure it would be > > realsitically doable. > > > > Also, such a project would be better discussed in a post sarge release > > timeframe, in order not to delay the sarge release further than is > > necessary. > > On the other hand, it can be done completely independently of Debian > manpower and serverpower, by non-maintainers (cooperating with official > Debian maintainers) who are interested in working with fresh GNOME Desktop > packages on woody for fun or for work. I was thinking about this, yes, even if I apply to be an official maintener also. > I'm sure the network of GNOME mirrors would not mind mirroring fresh woody > Debian binaries (I'm one of GNOME's ftp master admins, btw, so this > shouldn't be a horrific challenge). That could be great. > Give me a couple of weeks. I need to set up an autobuilder for unrelated > work stuff, so I will use that experience to build one for us, to support > the existing woody backports. It would be interesting to have both binary and source packages. > Once that is complete, I will attempt to gather hardware/bandwidth donations > from GNOME Foundation sponsors. > > The official Debian maintainers won't have to do anything beyond responding > to dependency-related wishlist bugreports, so that *hopefully*, our woody > backports will not require much human intervention at all. I'm already doing just that. Some of you guys must certainly already have been "attacked" by my bug reports about backporting to Woody. ;-) > Handy, huh? :-) > > - Jeff > > -- > linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ > > "I think we agnostics need a term for a holy war too. I feel all left > out." - George Lebl -- Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net> BeezNest s.à r.l.
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