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Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp
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Rafael Laboissiere |
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Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp) |
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Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:20:39 +0100 |
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* Søren Hauberg <address@hidden> [2009-02-13 10:56]:
> I'm saying this, without knowing anything about anything, so feel free
> to consider this pure bullshit...
Yes, it is sort of bullshit :-) In other words, don't push more work on us!
> If the DOG is doing this kind of work, why can't you guys just be the
> release managers for the stable series? It just sounds like there is a
> large overlap between maintaining the stable branch and maintaining
> Octave in a distribution.
Yes, the overlap is non negligible but I think they are two fundamentally
different tasks. The DOG mission is to make the Octave-related Debian
packages [1] "bug free", in the sense that we take care of the bug reports
filed against the packages through our BTS [2]. Nearly all fixes in the
packages are contributed upstream, though. Another important task of the
DOG is the global integration of all Octave-related packages (e.g. from
Octave-Forge).
This is very different from maintaining the stable branch of Octave, which
imply hanging on the mailing lists, going through the bug reports in
address@hidden, coping with the proposed changesets, and preparing the
actual release tarballs.
(Not so) unrelated to the discussion in this thread: without a ticketing
system for managing bug reports, feature requests, and patches it will be
quite to do a coordinate development effort.
[1] http://qa.debian.org/address@hidden
[2]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=pkg-octave-devel%40lists.alioth.debian.org
--
Rafael
- Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp, (continued)
- Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp, John W. Eaton, 2009/02/12
- Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp, WMennerich, 2009/02/12
- patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp), John W. Eaton, 2009/02/12
- Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp), Thomas Weber, 2009/02/12
- Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp), John W. Eaton, 2009/02/12
- Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp), Thomas Weber, 2009/02/13
- Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp), Søren Hauberg, 2009/02/12
- Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp), John W. Eaton, 2009/02/12
- Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp), Rafael Laboissiere, 2009/02/13
- Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp), Søren Hauberg, 2009/02/13
- Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp),
Rafael Laboissiere <=
- bug tracking (was: Re: patching the stable branch (was: ...)), John W. Eaton, 2009/02/13
- Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp), Thomas Weber, 2009/02/14
- Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp), Thomas Weber, 2009/02/14
- Re: patching the stable branch (was: Re: Octave 3.1.52 available for ftp), John W. Eaton, 2009/02/14