[oi-dev] Release engineering // planing

[G B]

/dev is solid, but /hipster is ripe with breaking.  The only way to do that is to move /dev to /release and when /hipster is "mostly" stable, then move it to /dev to work out the rest of the problems before moving to /release.

This would have to be done on a mostly conservative schedule like NetBSD instead of more quickly so the stability of OI doesn't change.

But I do have a question about another branch.  What is /experimental for and how often is it updated and how is it updated?




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 From: Erol Zavidic <erolms at gmail.com>
To: OpenIndiana Developer mailing list <oi-dev at openindiana.org> 
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [oi-dev] Release engineering // planing
 


On 12 July 2013 13:49, G B <g_patrickb at yahoo.com> wrote:

/hipster should be the -current like FreeBSD
>/dev should be -stable like FreeBSD
>/release or /stable should be -RELEASE like FreeBSD
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>/hipster can keep having its breakage, that is fine.  But what I'd see is /dev get illumos-gate updates and tested and when no problems are found and it is stable, then get promoted to /release, and keep this cycle.
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>Thus, /dev and /release will be sunstudio, but I don't know how one can get /hipster promoted to /dev because of gcc.
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>I guess it could be that /hipster always stays out there as a -current while /dev and /release stay with sunstudio because right now /dev is most rock-solid and that should not be taken away.  While /hipster has newer packages available, if someone is on /dev or /release there are other options rather than trying to get what is in
 /hipster.  opencsw.org has many current packages available, so anyone using /dev and /release can get them from opencsw.org.
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Important question over here:


Are we ever going to promote hipster to /dev or /release then? This is question in particular due to gcc/sunstudio differences.


Cheers,
Erol

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