X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Received: from smtp.mauras.ch (smtp.mauras.ch [163.172.199.81]) by lists.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC275C474D for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 06:29:24 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=mauras.ch; s=20160502; h=Message-ID:References:In-Reply-To:Subject:To:From:Date: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:Sender:Reply-To:Cc: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id:List-Help:List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=PbMxyU+oZFI9r9vNRbRpa8i6hnZKr10IB5VcLAwmZUE=; b=qjszqfTFMiXDOQIrHSPRq1dlFF zXsc9AVaSDzUnEKzvxg3yWKCPLFT63UYHhx5eG9ASi5SYMpIzkBPK8goRLVBNl3E7rgLYbFege7+j j0syC1AZBpt8SmURa1SSdVakXCy17QZ5hEXc5xmgD90O/xLWGVWvZjNqeIg+VLwlpAJI=; Received: from www.mauras.ch ([195.154.39.207] helo=mail.mauras.ch) by smtp.mauras.ch with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1baGpQ-0001YC-1T for alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:29:24 +0200 X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:29:23 +0200 From: olivier@mauras.ch To: Alpine-devel Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Cleanup of testing repository In-Reply-To: <20160817180214.797158fd@ncopa-macbook.copa.dup.pw> References: <20160817180214.797158fd@ncopa-macbook.copa.dup.pw> Message-ID: <059f352fe964588d8c8dfd9a87a196b7@mauras.ch> X-Sender: olivier@mauras.ch User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.2.0 X-Authenticated-Sender: olivier@mauras.ch On 2016-08-18 03:02, Natanael Copa wrote: > On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:47:43 +0200 > Carlo Landmeter wrote: > >> We should determine what the best possible TTL is for packages in >> testing. >> It should be long enough so developers get a chance to get their >> packages >> fixed upstream and short enough to prevent the mess we currently have. >> My suggestion would be something between 6 and 12 months, but i'm open >> to >> ideas. > > I wouldn't mind if try keep it short. > >> And please remember testing is not a copy of AUR, our developers >> should no be responsible for other peoples mess in testing. > > Yes. The idea with testing was originally to test that the package > built on the build server environment and not only on the developers'. > Also, sometimes we build packages that we don't use ourselves, so we > needed a way for the requester to test that the package actually works > before we moved it to the repository. > > Unfortunately we often never get any feedback on the packages requested > so we don't know if it actually works or not, and the packaged ends up > in testing forever. Wouldn't it help to create a dedicated list to testing? I always feel that the current channels are not enough to give feedback on testing. > >> To keep testing healthy we can purge them every time we create a new >> release branch, this is also a good time for developers to check >> testing >> and get things moved to community if they want to keep it. > > Agree. I think we also did a cleanup when we branched 3.4-stable. We > might need to start cleaning it more often. > > -nc > > > --- > Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org > Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org > --- -O --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---