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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:06:32PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Apr 05, Seth Alan Woolley [seth AT positivism.org] wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 01:57:05PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what you mean.  This wouldn't mean we keep the current 2 
> > > tier
> > > system and replace grimoire with maintainer, it would mean stuffing a 
> > > new
> > > maintainer division in between grimoire and section, or alternately I 
> > > guess
> > > doing maintainer/grimoire/section to let maintainers have full 
> > > flexibility
> > > on their own dev/test/etc. systems.  In any case it'd mean making
> > > everything in the system play nice with it.  (This probably gives Andrew
> > > palpitations, but again, I'm not really in favor of this one, primarily
> > > because of all the spell moving it would periodically require.)
> > 
> > Treat the maintainer name "jeremy_blosser" as a grimoire unto itself and 
> > sorcery handles it just fine.  That's what I meant.
> 
> I know, but that would be the wrong way to do this (though it's a cheap way
> to get it with the existing functionality).
> 
> For one thing it either means users have to scribe individual maintainers
> or it means finding a new place to stuff the "real" grimoire name in there
> for the user tarball creation process.  And what does it mean for code
> promotion for maintainers?  We don't want to lose the devel->test->stable
> distinction for maintainers, that's obviously something that's meant for
> them, not users.

I understood the scripts would rectify it for users to see a single 
grimoire.

Seth

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