use disttag ".1" for devel to avoid confusion (was: Re: Plan for tomorrow's (20070604) Release Engineering meeting)

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:14:51 -0500, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

> I'm not against a pre-final-freeze, scheduled mass rebuild of devel. I
> think that would solve the "omg, my disttags look old" fears and catch
> some minor issues.
>
> Is it redundant for some packages? Yep.
> Does it hurt those packages to be rebuilt automagically once during the
> cycle? No.
> Does it help us catch broken packages before final freeze? Yes.

Does it bear the risk of producing new breakage? Yes.
(for lots of packages, features are dropped silently when
configure tests fail)

> Does it help identify AWOL maintainers? Yes.

No. Or do you refer to a rebuild performed by the maintainers?

An automatic mass-rebuild does not involve the maintainers at all.

It would be different if the maintainers were asked to update/rebuild
their packages prior to a deadline. Only that would request a sign of
life.

Preferably the maintainers participate in the devel cycle and don't wait
with updates/upgrades until the final release.