Activities packaging

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
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>> A general note about activities packaging... It seem like some of the
>> packages submitted for review uses git snapshots. I would prefer to get
>> releases from upstream for various reasons. I wrote a script to make it
>> trivial to make a source release and I'm figuring out the best way to
>> solicit activity authors to get in the habit.
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> If the script is trivial, perhaps it's something we put on the shoulders of
> the packagers, rather than the maintainers?

Perhaps the packagers could collaborate with the maintainers on it?
Some level of collaboration is necessary to ensure that a certain
release means the same things on all the distributions, and that we do
package code that is ready to be. Also the release script does things
like uploading to the official source repo and sending out
announcement mail, which obviously needs to be agreed with the
maintainer.

Without the above conditions, it's probably better to just release
from git, which is better than nothing for packages on which we can't
get maintainers collaboration.

Marco