Re: [libvirt] Release of libvirt-0.8.7
A bit of split as these are two topics.
On 01/05/2011 04:43 PM, Laine Stump wrote:
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> As for 'Downloads' page ~ since this is only package,
I'm not sure if it
> is worth of bother at all ;) Links(information) can be found in mailing
> list archives(via search engines). Dunno.
Searching sometimes leads to lots of useless junk that you have to sift
through to find what you're looking for, and the source of any links is
often (at least should be considered!) questionable. Putting a link on
the Downloads page of the official project site gives it an extra bit of
legitimacy that will give people a warm fuzzy feeling when they install
:-) But of course, the link needs to always have something at its other
end. So if those links are there to stay, then I'd say add them to the
Downloads page for libvirt (assuming we can trust you to not put a
trojan in the binary! :-)
Thank you for responding. I had second thoughts and I wanted to reply
(again to Justin), but forgot.
I also wanted to reply in the morning/during the day(both topics), but
work got into it and...
I agree on question ability, yet even links/packages/sources at some
page can't be trusted. But that's really philosophical talk.
What got into my mind is, downloads page resp. links and their updates
should depend upon community itself. I mean community around each
distro, of course. That means package maintainer or even users themselves.
Why should be reasonable enough. Because libvirt devs can't track N
distros for changes nor they should do so.
Here is blunt, straight and simple process. I had sentences before, but
this should be better to understand than my gibberish.
* new package is built
* package maintainer/user whom found out/whoever sends an e-mail to
libvirt list like: "Hey, new pkg version for
distro XYZ can be found at http://somewhere.tld/foo Could you, please,
update your page?"
* libvirt dev checks the link - probably
some repo browser/tracker - and updates the downloads page
And that should be it.
I think it could be possible to script some automatic tracking and
updating and what not, but - really? No.
Regards,
Zdenek
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