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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] "staging" grimoire instead of devel for development spells as opposed to WIP spells?
  • Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:47:31 -0800

Quoting Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>:
> I package a devel grimoire every hour on my server that people may use,
> but perhaps there is another way around this problem.
>
> The idea was to get people on test grimoire as too many people were
> using devel and not using test and then complaining of breakage.
>
> Devel then became a staging ground of where we put things when we don't
> want to break a usable test grimoire.
>
> This can easily be fixed with a "staging" grimoire. In the staging
> grimoire we can put things like development gcc and development glibc
> and development gnome before they go into test, the only reason they are
> not in test being that there's an interaction with it and other spells.
> If there's an interaction within itself that causes problems, it goes
> into devel with WIP instead of staging.
>
> We can then make the staging grimoire public with instructions to add it
> after their regular grimoires and use scribbler to pull spells in front
> of test into a custom grimoire so they can run it.
>
> We can call it "staging" or "queue" or anything else, but I think
> "staging" is a pretty rational name.
>
> I'm going to put this on sm-discuss for feedback and bcc everybody else.
>
> Seth

This sounds like adding yet another layer of grimoires, do we truly want to do
this? I'd rather keep our current method where anyone can get test and stable
easily (already supported with a `scribe add <grimoire>`), but if people want
to help test devel we can post the spells we want tested to sm-discuss, post
our own grimoires (e.g. the rsync://sandall.us::sandalle grimoire) with the
test spells, or point the intrepid volunteers to where the devel grimoire is
hosted.

I think adding another layer to our grimoires would just slow down the process
and make it more cumbersome for no (IMO) valid reason.

-sandalle

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