Initial Proposal for doing Enterprise Extras

[Tim Lauridsen]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> I would like to suggest the following plan for Enterprise Extras:
>
> 1) There are 4 channels per {Scientific/Centos} Enterprise Linux
>     extras
>     extras-devel
>     extras-testing
>     extras-updates
>
>   [proposed naming convention: extras-2el, extras-3el, extras-4el, 
> extras-5el]
>
> 2) Extras are produced/updated on a 6 month basis. Stuff is usually
> done in extras-devel but at 5 months a lockdown is done and they are
> pushed as being the next dot release (2.1.0,3.1.0,4.1.0,5.1.0 ->
> 2.2.0,3.2.0,4.2.0,5.2.0)
>
> 3) Extras-devel is where development and feature changes are done for
> each 6 month lockdown.
>
> 4) Extras-testing is where fixes to the current locked down version is
> completed before being pushed to extras/extras-updates
>
> 5) Extras-updates gets security and fixes to the 'locked' down version
> in extras.
>
>
> So for example:
>
> foo-bar-1.0-1 is put into Extras
> foo-bar-1.2-1 is worked on in extras-devel for the next 6 month release
> foo-bar-1.0-4 is in Extras-testing to fix a problem in initialization
> foo-bar-1.0-2 is in Extras-updates to fix a security problem and will
> be replaced with 1.0-4 when it passes testing.
>
I sound sane to me.

Tim