Hi all, On 25-Oct-06 13:32, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
Debian has apparently a policy to never add new features to a stable Debian release, only bug fixes. But since Debian's release cycle is much longer than Drupal's this leads to problems. Drupal's stable release is 4.7 and 4.5 was released about two years ago.
Debian's policy works great for system level stuff, but in the world of Drupal (and other fast-paced systems), it's not exactly ideal. This is exactly why backports.org exists. Packaging Drupal up will give end-users the ability to try out Drupal with ease. Heaven forbid, that they don't like it and have to uninstall it. Bring on some intelligent packaging! -- Sammy Spets Synerger Pty Ltd http://synerger.com
Seemant Kulleen wrote:
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 12:29 +0200, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
Our relationship with people packaging Drupal has also been rather problematic. ;p
I hope not with Gentoo...
Also, before you consider doing any package you should check if your distribution's release policy matches Drupal's. As a result of such a check not being done, Debian ships now with a Drupal 4.5 package which isn't maintained by us anymore.
Not sure what you mean here -- Gentoo tends to be a moving target, so if 4.6 gets deemed as the new upstream stable, Gentoo devs tend to follow up on that in the distro itself (in most cases, anyway).
Debian has apparently a policy to never add new features to a stable Debian release, only bug fixes. But since Debian's release cycle is much longer than Drupal's this leads to problems. Drupal's stable release is 4.7 and 4.5 was released about two years ago.
So if Gentoo accepts new features into its new releases, then this won't be a problem.
This is not a thing developers themselves can do anything about. The problem is with our way of packaging things. Luckily, this should change soon and from there on tarballs once created should be stable.
Being completely new to the world of drupal, I'm not sure I understand the packaging method or the changes in store. Can you point me to a doc where I may learn more?
http://drupal.org/node/77562 http://drupal.org/node/90436
Also, when will these changes happen?
Soon(tm)
Actually, some have already happened. The rest might happen this or next week.
Oh, and a final word from me: Please don't simply package modules *because* *you* *can*. Contrib is not reviewed in any way. Modules may have serious security holes. Modules may even be abandoned. So first evaluate the modules you want to package.
Cheers, Gerhard, wearing his contrib-CVS admin hat