[Fedora-r-devel-list] Which branches should I apply for? FC-6 and F-7? [was: R-Matrix ready for more review]

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri May 25 19:39:14 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 15:21 -0400, Tom Moertel wrote:

> It's pretty clear to me what ought to go in each of the required fields 
> except Branches.  I guessed "FC-6 F-7", but the 
> PackageMaintainers/CVSAdminProcedure page says:
> 
>    Valid branch names currently used for Fedora:
>    FC-5 FC-6 F-7 EL-4 EL-5.
> 
> Should I list them all?  Only the ones for which I have personally 
> tested the package?  Some other combination?  What's the guiding 
> philosophy here -- more, fewer, or something else?

Decide which branches you're able to test and maintain. R is pretty
consistent across FC-5, FC-6, and F-7. I can't vouch for EL-4, EL-5, as
I've never built R there yet. I'll probably end up doing it, as I'm sure
there is interest from the .edus.

You can always add branches later.

~spot




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