Re: Gnome 2.4
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 12:45:34PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> Le ven 08/08/2003 à 12:15, Sven Luther a écrit :
> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:32:42AM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > In truth, we would need a group of smaller experimental repositories,
> > > > with autobuilders attached too.
> > > Could there be one for backports to Woody as someone proponed a few days
> > > ago?
> >
> > 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.
> Well, I was not thinking really about an official buildd, but a machine
> where to compile automatically for a small team to work on it together.
> I'm not, in any way, willing to delay or slow down the Sarge release.
> The opposite, in fact, if I can do anything to get the patches or
> solutions I found to backport to Woody available to Sarge, I would be
> really glad.
>
> Maybe some buildd guru could help me setup such a system? I have already
> a machine that could be used to this (with plenty of disk space and
> horsepower), but I have to be carefull because it's already a production
> machine. I would like at least to talk to someone knowledgeable in this
> respect before doing it actually.
>
> > 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.
> Then I would have to do it for Sarge, not Woody. But who knows when
> Sarge will be out? I need a cool desktop right now, not somewhere end of
> this year (or is it next year ;-)).
For a desktop, just run the sid packages, no problem there. I suppose
anything really security conscious or stability critical will mostly be
a server and not run any desktop stuff anyway.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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