[M3devel] CM3 Release Engineering and Feedback

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:

> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 01:10:38AM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
>>  o There hasn't been much feedback, neither from the list of active
>>    developers nor from end users for RC2. I'd really appreciate some
>>    more reports about installation attempts and the problems encountered.
>
> Well, I'll provide more with the next RC.  The hudson directory was
> pretty much a show-stopper.  I'd expect the same problem to be there on
> the other platforms.

The simple work-around would be to call cm3 -build on the packages
again, which should only adapt the broken .M3SHIP files.

I've added a check to make-dist.sh which should prevent such
accidents in the future. Probably something slightly different
will then remain undetected though ;-)

But never mind, I'll try to build some RC3 packages for AMD64_LINUX
at least at the weekend.

>>  o There's still the open discussion about the location and search
>>    strategy for config files where no conclusion or agreement has
>>    been reached as far as I know.
>
> As long as
>  (1) it is found in a platform-standard place, and
>  (2) there's an easy way for a user to override this via command-line
> parameter or environment variable,
> the further details probably don't matter that much.

I had the impression that there were decidedly different and
contradicting opinions on that matter. Maybe I mistook that though.

>> There are also still the Elego ComPact and DCVS M3 packages which
>> I started to review for publishing long ago, but have never had
>> the time and energy to finish. I won't promise anything though.
>
> What are these DCVS packages?

A distributed version of CVS. It's already available, but I'd like
to add some or all of the M3 packages to CM3. The distribution part
is mainly based on an extended CVSup. There were more interesting
features added to CVS like snapshots and changesets, too.

Olaf
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