[Frugalware-devel] Question about "work in progress" (WIP) repositories

[Russell Dickenson]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Devil505 <devil505linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/25 Russell Dickenson <russelldickenson at gmail.com>:
>> Thanks.  I rarely see the WIP repositories announced.  Recently
>> created WIP repos include gnome226, notifyosd, and
>> bouleetbilexperimental.
>>
>
> Actually gnome226 is finished, gnome 2.26 is in current now

Thanks, but I know that Gnome 2.26 has been pushed to 'current'.


> Cedynamix has just start notify-osd the last week
> more info about notify-osd here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD

I think notify-osd is very interesting in concept.  I haven't yet
decided whether or not I like it.


> Bouleetexperimental is mainly used to test PAM:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/whatispam.html
> For now, we don't want to use pam but Bouleetbil found, at each
> version bump of gnome,
> that pam is more and more used by gnome, moreover this is the reason
> we have gdm 2.20 and not 2.26
> Maybe one day, we'll oblige to add pam in current, in that case, this
> wip repo will make the task easier :)

Great work by Bouleetbil, as always.

My questions were mainly aimed at discovering how users may interact
with WIP repos - if at all.  If we don't want users using them then
perhaps I shouldn't mention them in the newsletter.  If we *DO* want
users testing them, then I should mention them.  Since I haven't seen
many official announcements of WIP repos - perhaps I'm reading the
wrong MLs - I don't know whether or not to recommend their use to
users, of course for testing only.


May you always be Frugal,

Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz)