How to get packages on the 8.2 branch?

[Simon Schampijer]

Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:52 PM, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
>> <mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What do we need to do to get packages on the stable 8.2 branch?
>> That's a good question.  I assume we use the process we used for 8.1,
>> which is that you create a trac bug naming the exact package you want
>> and the reason for its inclusion, and assign it to ApprovalForUpdate.
>> When Michael et al approve it, they assign it to me to pull into the
>> stable repository.  (This is documented on the wiki somewhere, but my
>> internet access is poor at the moment.  Maybe Michael can help.)
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
>> But all this is rather disruptive, and I'm not convinced it's an
>> appropriate time to make the shift to the 'Fedora way'.  My gut
>> feeling would be to defer this until 9.1.  In that case, I'd continue
>> building the stable release for 8.2 from the git repo on
>> http://mock.laptop.org/repos, which I'll manually add packages to as
>> they are requested.  Thoughts, comments, strong preferences?
> 
> I don't have a strong feeling about that. I think we should switch to
> the Fedora way but not necessarily for this release.
> 
> --
> 
> Related question, probably more for Michael/Greg. How is the
> trac/testing workflow with the stable branch?
> 
> We currently set the action to "test in build" as soon as packages
> hits joyride. I assume we will test in joyride and then assign to "add
> to build". What happens once the package containing the fix is added
> to the 8.2 branch? Is the ticket owner in charge of testing in 8.2 or
> can we just switch to "qa signoff"?

Hmm Yeah I was wondering about that as well. If 'add to build' is the 
action after testing in joyride ('test in build') they should be swapped 
in the list I guess.

Best,
    Simon