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On Tuesday 26 January 2010 00:06:50 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> On Montag 25 Januar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Monday 25 January 2010 23:11:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> > > > Today it is finally released. I don't know why it took so long. :) |
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> > > |
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> > > It's a bit sad though that an open source project keeps secrets... I |
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> > > found out that the tarballs were available for days now but only for |
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> > > maintainers of KDE packages of various distros. For example Arch Linux |
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> > > had RC2 binaries available in its [kde-unstable] repo since Jan 21, but |
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> > > no one would give a link to the tarballs used to build the sources |
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> > > because they are "secret". |
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> > > |
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> > > Am I the only one to find this frustrating (to say the least)? |
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> > |
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> > There's nothing secret here. Nothing to see, move along folks. |
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> > |
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> > The code is always available in svn, if you wanted it that bad you could |
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> > have checked it out. It's common release engineering practice to build a |
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> > tarball from the repo and provide limited access to *those* files to |
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> > distros and mirrors to give them time to sync and build their binaries |
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> > before making them available to the public. I mirror Ubuntu and Fedora. |
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> > The deal is that I get the rpms and debs two days before the public |
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> > does. This is so that every official mirror on the planet is ready to |
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> > simultaneously publish the release *all*at*the*same*time*. |
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> > This is a very excellent way of working. You have no idea how much chaos |
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> > thousands of eager beaver users cause pounding away at my inbox if I |
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> > don't have the latest Ubuntu for them the day it is released because |
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> > sharks bit the undersea cable to London and the inbound bandwidth slows |
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> > to a crawl. I'm not making this up - stuff like this happens. |
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> > |
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> > Gentoo erred in publishing ebuilds for tarballs that were not generally |
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> > available yet. |
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> no, the user erred in stupid unmasking. |
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Yes, very true. |
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$PORTDIR/profiles/package.mask does usually clearly say stuff like |
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masking next kde version in preparation for release on <date> |
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or words to that effect |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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