Re: [Ekiga-devel-list] Improving the GNOME experience : request for help

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeudi 07 juin 2007 �9:43 +0100, David Corking a �it :
> All,
> 
> On 6/7/07, Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> wrote:
> 
> > However, maintaining the project asks much time, and coding asks even
> > more time, so I would like to request help for one specific task :
> >
> > 1) Prepare tarballs in case of release : ie Ekiga, OPAL and PWLIB
> > tarballs
> 
> Do you mean a release to gnome.org?   How often does this occur?
> 

Every time we do a release.

> Are releases to gnome.org after each release on ekiga.org, or simultaneous?
> 

Simultaneous. You should release there before ekiga.org.

> > 2) Test them (do at least minimal tests)
> 
> Is a test on garnome on an x86 laptop sufficient?  If not, does gnome
> have a build-test farm?

I don't know. You have to run Ekiga, even on an older version of GNOME,
that does not matter.

> 
> > 3) Upload to GNOME.org
> > 4) Mail packagers
> > 5) Build a repository
> 
> What are the issues with the existing repositories?

The existing repositories will be built from the repository the release
maintainer will build. Currently, each time I receive a package, I need
to scp it to ekiga.org. That is time consuming for me. Every release, I
loose a few hours on that instead of coding.

> > Also, regularly, that person should upload the required OPAL and PWLIB
> > dependancies for the SVN version to GNOME.org.
> 
> How often is regularly?
> 

I don't know, really. But probably not more than once a month.

> Can these tasks can be done by someone who is not a C programmer?  (I
> think familiarity with configuring the dependencies, building, tarring
> and using SVN, and simple scripting, is needed.)


Yes, you are right.

That is really a "release manager". Coding is not required at all, it is
supposed to work already ;)
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