[ClusterLabs Developers] [Debian-ha-maintainers] SBD Releases

[Andrew Beekhof]

Klaus: Can you tag sbd with what we’re shipping in 7.2 and 7.3 please?

> On 7 Apr 2016, at 6:11 PM, Christoph Berg <myon at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Re: Andrew Beekhof 2016-04-07 <4808145B-32BA-4084-A369-418228A0E038 at beekhof.net>
>>> The reason why Debian is usually asking for release tarballs is that
>>> we then have some "this version is ok for general use" statement from
>>> the authors, while for git-hash-snapshots, we can never really be sure
>>> that we haven't hit a spot that is WIP between two development
>>> sprints. Or a case of "there's this open pull request that should
>>> definitely be included, it's just not done yet". Or "the last commit
>>> in git HEAD does [not] warrant a new package release”.
>> 
>> All the work happens in private clones, the policy is that by the time it reaches the main repo it needs to be fully baked.
> 
> Ok, that's good to know.
> 
>>> To get the package started, we can of course use a snapshot tarball as
>>> Adrian said, but long-term I'd really prefer real releases. Would that
>>> be arrangeable?
>> 
>> We could possibly tag what’s going into RHEL if that would help.
>> I don’t know there is a lot of bandwidth going around to co-ordinate the testing required for full releases.
> 
> The main problem is probably that we are maintaining more than one
> package, and without releases, there wouldn't be anything to remind us
> of pulling updates in the long term. (Just looking at git commits
> would probably not help as these happen too often.)
> 
> I think tagging the RHEL releases would help, thanks for considering!
> Having the same versions in RHEL and Debian might be a good thing as
> well.
> 
> Christoph
> 
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