[gobolinux-devel] Tools freeze

[Michael Homer]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Michael Homer <michael at gobolinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Carlo Calica <carlo at calica.com> wrote:
>  > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:49 AM, Michael Homer <michael at gobolinux.org> wrote:
>  >  > Hi all,
>  >  >  There'll be a Scripts and Compile release soon (hours, perhaps;
>  >  >  otherwise tomorrow when Jonas gets time), so there's a code freeze on
>  >  >  it starting now. Check in bug or compatibility fixes only, and anybody
>  >  >  running SVN please update and test to see if anything goes wrong.
>  >  >
>  >  >  New functionality in these releases:
>  >  >  - Use flags
>  >  >  - Bazaar support
>  >  >  - Mercurial support
>  >  >  - Cabal recipe_type
>  >  >  - ContributeRecipe script
>  >  >  - Innumerable small additions and bugfixes
>  >  >
>  >  >  There are (as far as we can remember) no API breakages here, so on
>  >  >  that criterion it's only a point release, but there are some big
>  >  >  additions there if people feel it needs a minor bump. Opinions?
>  >  >
>  >  Use flags are important enough to warrant a minor bump.
>  >
>  >
>  >  >  ContributeRecipe may be a little controversial; it does work, as far
>  >  >  as I know, but I'm really the only one who's tested it. If people
>  >  >  could give that a test as well it'd be great, and we can see whether
>  >  >  to pull it or not. The panel is at http://mwh.geek.nz/cr/, and recipe
>  >  >  committers I a) remembered and b) saw posts from to -recipes or -devel
>  >  >  within the last month or so can log in there with the email address
>  >  >  they used for that. As yet, the panel does not do commits itself, so
>  >  >  it's safe to log in and approve/reject test submissions.
>  >  I'd prefer moving the panel to a more permanent home first.  We can
>  >  host at calica.com.  I figure you'll be available in a few hours and
>  >  we can coordinate then.  Then we can get gobolinux.org DNS setup up.
>  >  Suggestions for a hostname?  Another (better?) option is to host it on
>  >  recipes.gobolinux.org in a subdir "panel" or "review" or similar.
>  >
>  >  The release needs to wait until this is setup.
>  The code is available, go nuts. It's currently on a Dreamhost account,
>  not on the lists machine. If I'm not around at whatever time it needs
>  to move, the code is all available anyway. Just change the paths in
>  config.php, and the directory permissions if it isn't running suid.
>
>  recipes.gobolinux.org/review/ would be a reasonable location for it as
>  well, probably even a better one. My public key is at [1], so if
>  someone can drop that into authorized_keys I'll put it up.
On-list this time:
And it's up: <http://recipes.gobolinux.org/review/>. Seems to work
too. I've updated CR to submit to there as well.

Anyone who should have a review account and doesn't, or who I've used
the wrong email address for, please let me know.
-Michael