On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 02:37 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote: > We need to work out format / policy for pkgs built and hosted in the > CentOS Extras / CentOS Plus Testing area -> Stable repository. > > One option is to move pkgs by Time-Default. Under this setup, once > announced in the centos-devel list, after 14 days the pkgs are moved > into the stable repositories. The time issue is arbitary, I feel 14 days > is 'long enough'. If its too long we can shorten it to 7 days ? Would > that give enough time to find major issues ? > > Second option, would be to raise a bugs.centos.org issue for each pkg - > and ask for feedback on the issue tracker. Moving the package from > Testing to Stable would required a fixed number of positive responders. > eg. 5 people need to confirm it works ? > > Third option would be to leave it upto the packager / builder to decide > when its ok to move things over from Testing -> Stable. However, in lots > of cases, pkgers are busy. And to be honest, unless the pkger thinks its > OK, the pkg would not be in Testing anyway. I prefer if other people > were to be involved in the test process as well. > Fedora has been letting the packager set the standard but normally lets the testing period be 1 - 2 weeks. Secondly - for preserving old packages we've been keeping the latest 2 versions of any package in the main repo - that's the standard extras is using now for repo pruning. hope that helps. -sv