Re: [Banshee-devel-list] [banshee-devel-list] BCE packaging

[Frank <funtastix googlemail com>]

I think the especially the last point you're making is quite
important. Sure it's always desirable to have new extensions out as
soon as possible, but from how I understand you I think BCE
developers/maintainers should consider carefully:

* when is a good time to release a new extension?
* is the extension mature enough yet to be included in packaging?
* are all release requirements fulfillled?
  ---- What are they? How do I find out?

Can releases of new extensions be bundled in a good way? since we're
in schedule with banshee releases, that could be difficult, but it
could be motivation to meet release dates for some.

I would volunteer to extend the BCE wiki a bit by some best practices,
especially a package release checklist, again lowering the border to
write new Extensions.

Also, given time and volunteers at least a quick review of extensions
should be done before releasing. I remember my own StreamRecorder
extension spitting out a lot of useless debugging, easy to fix, but I
somehow missed on that and there was no review until someone got
annoyed by it...

Thanks for doing a great packaging job, anyway, Chow!

Frank

2010/4/5 Chow Loong Jin <hyperair ubuntu com>:
> On Monday 05,April,2010 11:52 AM, Frank wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> can anyone tell me, how long it takes for the packaging of BCE
>> (specifically for Ubuntu)? How is packaging for BCE organized? I
>> noticed there is quite a time difference between the actual release
>> and the packaging. Any help needed anywhere? I would really like to
>> see the software distributed to the average user base which I don't
>> think possible without packaging.
>
> Sorry for taking so long. The reason there's so much time taken between release
> and packaging is that each release so far has added at least one new extension.
> I expect things to calm down after BCE has been around for a while, but every
> time we upload something with a new binary package, it gets stuck in both
> Debian's and Ubuntu's NEW queue. And every time I have to go through the NEW
> queue, I need to put in extra care to avoid the package getting rejected and
> needing another round-trip through me and the NEW queue again.
>
> Examples of NEW issues that I didn't nail down properly during my last upload to
> Ubuntu -- Banshee.Lirc's files do not have copyright statements and I didn't
> document the copyrights properly, NDesk.DBus is bundled in Banshee.Telepathy....
>
> Well all those are taken care of now, and upload of the new BCE should be soon.
>
> What would *really* help would be to get as many extensions in between one
> release and another, rather than spreading them out over a number of releases.
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411)
> Ubuntu Developer
>
>
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