State of the archive

[Daniel Stone]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:43:18AM -0400, Kevin E Martin wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:25:22PM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > I can see the logic behind this.  I'm happy to have a separate
> > development/ directory in the archive.  Probably worthwhile following
> > this structure:
> > releases/
> >   X11R7.0/
> >     .../
> > development/
> >   X11R7.0-RC1/
> >     .../
> > individual/
> >   app/
> >   .../
> 
> This seems to me to make "individual" appear as if it isn't a place
> where releases are made since it's not part of "releases".  I think
> keeping the official releases at the top level along side individual
> would be better:
> 
> development/
>   X11R7.0-RC1/
>     .../
>   individual/
>     .../
> X11R7.0/
>   .../
> individual/
>   app/
>   .../
> 
> This way we have all releases on equal footing.  And, in the development
> dir, we have RCs (for both individual and rollup releases) as well as a
> place for individual package maintainers and release managers to put
> snapshots for packages that haven't been officially released yet.  As I
> mentioned earlier, this would help avoid end-user confusion over which
> package is a development snapshot/RC and which is a stable released
> version.

Sure, whatever.

> > Right.  Is this not what you want?
> 
> Shouldn't all releases, including the current ones, be read-only?  I
> wouldn't want an accidental overwrite to happen to happen with those
> releases either.  It just seems prudent to make everything read-only.

I guess, but it does make the process for adding patches and whatnot
more irritating.  I've made all files (but not directories) read-only.

> > Indeed.  That particular part is certainly long-overdue.
> 
> It looks like all of the patches from annarchy are ftp.x.org, so this
> part was taken care of.
> 
> One thing I noticed while going through the patches dirs is that we have
> one on ftp.x.org that isn't on annarchy, which should be:
> 
>   X11R6.8.2/patches/xorg-CAN-2005-2495.patch

Done.

Cheers,
Daniel
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