Re: g-v-m's failure to release and release-team's failure to notice

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 8/25/05, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> So... the last four releases of g-v-m never actually got technically
> released, compare:
> 
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-volume-manager/1.3/
> 
> with:
> 
> http://primates.ximian.com/~fejj/gvm/
> 
> This is a real problem. I'm willing to cut some slack here and not
> scream too much bloddy murder because people will have been building
> out of CVS, but...
> 
> (1) the release team needs to develop a better way of flagging shit
> that doesn't get released regularly. I guess it should go somewhere in
> http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/MakingARelease but I'm not sure
> where.

This can be done on window with the release-diff script in
releng/tools/release_set_scripts.  Example:

$ ./release-diff --same /ftp/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.10/2.10.2/
/ftp/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.11/2.11.92/
gnome2-user-docs          2.8.1      2.8.1
gnome-keyring             0.4.3      0.4.3
gnome-mag                 0.12.1     0.12.1
gnomemeeting              1.2.1      1.2.1
gnome-speech              0.3.7      0.3.7
gok                       1.0.5      1.0.5
gst-plugins               0.8.10     0.8.10
gstreamer                 0.8.10     0.8.10
gucharmap                 1.4.3      1.4.3
libgail-gnome             1.1.1      1.1.1
librsvg                   2.9.5      2.9.5
libxklavier               2.0        2.0
scrollkeeper              0.3.14     0.3.14
startup-notification      0.8        0.8

It's kind of annoying in that it only works on one release set at a
time (e.g. 'desktop' in this example) and that it requires full paths.
 It'd be nicer if it worked on all release sets and only required the
release version numbers, e.g.
   release-diff --same 2.10.2 2.11.92
If you like, I could work on fixing it up to work like that and then
add a comment to the wiki requesting that people do so and publish the
results with each release.

(without the '--same' flag, you'll get a list of modules with
different versions, which is why there are two columns).

> and
> 
> (2) jeff, dude, get with the program. :)

Jeff, you should only need to request a shell account from
accounts gnome org (if you don't already have one) and then make use
of the install-module script on window.gnome.org/master.gnome.org in
order to get stuff installed on GNOME ftp.  Let us know if you run
into any problems and we'll try to help get them ironed out.


Cheers,
Elijah