> -----Original Message----- > 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 > > > > 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 > > > > -- > Jim Perrin > The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org > twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel