[Foresight-devel] Re: Two flavors of FL?

[Jonathan Smith]

Ken VanDine wrote:
> We need to brainstorm the process a bit, but I invision something like 3 labels:
> 
> foresight.rpath.org at fl:2-devel
> foresight.rpath.org at fl:2-qa
> foresight.rpath.org at fl:2
> 
> This doesn't address contrib at all, just stuff in the distro.
> 
> We will do our development on 2-devel, and developers will run
> 2-devel.  If possible we will maintain 2-qa boxes for testing.  Have a
> designated pool of official testers that run prisinte 2-qa boxes for
> testing.  As developers feel the work on 2-devel is ready (passed
> developer testing), one of a few designed people will promote that
> work to 2-qa and cook the group.  The testers should be automatically
> updating, or get some way to be notified to update.  We also need some
> way to track what has changed and what needs testing.  Those testers
> report status, and when all tests pass we promote the entire cooked
> group to fl:2 for the real world to consume.  We can do that with a
> single command.

just a note - security goons need a way to promote through a single package 
without bringing along the rest of the gunk. so we need to be able to cook 
groups directly on -qa.

-smithj