On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:04:13 +0100 Christoph Wickert wrote:
This means that chainbuilds are no longer possible and this slows
development down dramatically. Think of a feature like Xfce 4.8 with
it's tight schedule [1]. E.g. we only have 8 days to build one of the
pre-releases.
When I made the Xfce 4.4.3 update for F-9, it took 7 days to build
everything due to the long dependency chain that required a lot of
overrides from rel-eng [2].
This means that large updates like Gnome, KDE or Xfce will get
massively delayed after alpha. They might not make it into one of the
prereleases, which means they get less testing. A lot of features
will no longer be possible in their current state.
How do we address this issue?
Would it help to use a special Koji tag for this?
Let's say you'd get a tag 'dist-f13-xfce48' where all packages built
there would be immediately available for building dependend packages.
And then when you're done, you'd ask rel-eng to tag them all at once
into 'dist-f13-updates-candidate'.
Jesse, does it make sense?
Michal