[Libosinfo] [PATCH 3/4] gnome: Add info for gnome-continuous 3.12

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Tue Nov 26 16:22:03 UTC 2013


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Fabiano Fidencio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
> Zeeshan,
>
> On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 16:00 +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> gnome-continuous is continuous integration system so images produced by
>> it track the git master of all modules and now that GNOME 3.10 is out and
>> many projects have branched for 3.10 maintainance, these images are
>> already 3.12 (3.11 at the moment but thats splitting hair I guess).
>
> I'd like (to try) to explain why gnome-continuous-3.12 is something that
> doesn't make sense to me.
>
> The idea I have of using gnome-continuous is that I'll always be using
> git master. Is that right?
> Considering that I'm always using git master, why should it refer 3.12,
> 3.14, whatever?
> Would I be able, in the future (2 years from now), to create and use a
> gnome-continuous-3.12 virtual machine? I don't think so and it's the
> reason I don't believe we should have it "versioned".

Sure but there is nothing stopping you from doing that. If you got a
3.12 image at the time of 3.18, Boxes (or any app) should be about to
tell that it is a 3.12 image and not a 3.18 one.


-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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