Harmless KDE feature upgrades - yeah right

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:02 -0500, Peter Jones wrote:
> On 03/04/2010 04:44 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > On 03/05/2010 03:09 AM, Peter Jones wrote:
> >>
> >> Option two is one more repo for all "updates".  Which may be well and
> >> good, but might also be less interesting than a more general approach. In
> >> #4, what I'm suggesting is essentially the possibility of a SIG having
> >> overlay repos for whatever distro version(s) they want; they could be
> >> experimental, they could be for upgrades that don't conform to a more
> >> strict update policy, it could be for things even *I* haven't thought of
> >> yet ;)
> >>   
> > 
> > Is this what you had in mind? 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JesseKeating/KojiPersonalRepos
> 
> It's very similar, but not quite the same, for a couple of reasons. To wit,
> Jesse's proposal mostly seems to focus on the repos being somewhat
> transient - "Bob wants a repo to test something" - whereas I'm discussing
> a longer-term purpose.  Also, his is on a individual level, whereas what I'm
> discussing would be more at a SIG level. That in some sense may make
> implementation somewhat easier, by putting a damper on the rate at which
> they need to be created and destroyed, and also might include some
> oversight as to whether creating it is really such a good idea - but
> making it a "is this completely bogus" sort of choice, rather than a
> "does this fit in to our rigorous policies" kind of decision. This
> would also help avoid the option-overload that comes with #3 on my
> original example list.
> 

Peter's characterization is correct, however if we had KoPeRs, it's not
that hard to expand it to SIG level repos of a less transient nature.
The same base work has to be done for either case.

-- 
Jesse Keating
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