[CentOS-devel] RFC: OCaml SIG

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> From: centos-devel-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-
> bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin
> Sent: 20 November 2014 2:29 PM
> To: centos-devel at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] RFC: OCaml SIG
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> On 11/20/2014 07:41 AM, Jonathan Ludlam wrote:
> 
> >> This seems like a very good start to the proposal. A few
> >> questions/statements:
> >>
> >> 1. What would you require in terms of distribution resources?  I'm
> >> assuming git/koji access, so that you could build and distribute sig
> packages.
> >>
> >
> > That sounds right.
> >
> >
> >> 1a. Would you require a mailing list or forum area?
> >>
> >
> > I think a mailing list would be helpful. Personally I'm less bothered by the
> forum area, but others may disagree.
> >
> >> 2. What do you envision for release planning? Tracking upstream
> >> builds vs a newer stabilized release?
> >
> > I would imagine this decision being taken on a case-by-case basis. For
> critical things such as the compiler and some of the core libraries we may
> want to take the releases only after they've stabilised in the community for a
> while - e.g. the 4.02.0 release had a number of issues that 4.02.1 addressed,
> so we should be conservative in areas like this. For projects that are less
> mature, it may make more sense to simply track the releases as they happen.
> >
> >>
> >> 3. How would releases be built/scheduled? Build every month, every 6
> >> months, "when something happens upstream" ?
> >>
> >
> > Things happen upstream quite rapidly at the moment, so that would be too
> frequent. I suspect a monthly cadence would be right to begin with.
> 
> 
> In thinking about this a bit more (and based on the pace of upstream you
> mention), it seems like this might be something which could be done via
> software collections. That way if there's a compatibility break for some
> reason, users would be able to have both an older and current version.
> Would you be willing to do this as part of a software collection?
>

I imagine so; my only concern would be whether we can have the Virt SIG depend upon a software collection, as Johnny Hughes already mentioned a desire to have the Xen builds depend upon a newer version of OCaml. Is this feasible in the same way that SIGs can depend upon each other?

Jon


 
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