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| == Garage and developer services == | | == Garage and developer services == |
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- | Garage, subversion and git repositories, autobuilders, issue trackers, mailing lists... what can be done to improve the Maemo application developer experience by the community?
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- | * requests for improvements
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- | ** do not auto-upload to public repo on succeeding build, give developer a method to check the actual result prior to "publishing" the package (gri)
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- | ** have a purge button, so a successfully built package that doesn't look like intended, can be removed/overwritten by a modified version, without need for incrementing version number (synt: bundyo, nicolai)
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- | * debate about alternatives
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- | ** qgil says there are better alternatives nowadays, so why put effort into improvements of the current service
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- | ** Ferenc Szekely points to functions of garage that are hard to implement in any of the alternative services, like upload privileges to extras
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- | ** Jaffa about the current setup:
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- | *** #advantages:
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- | *** familiarity between projects
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- | *** cross-project collaboration
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- | *** streamlined tools for Maemo
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- | *** single authentication/authorisation point
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- | *** svn
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- | *** #disadvantages / requests for improvement:
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- | *** poor communication in the past (move to vcs.maemo.org and drop.maemo.org)
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- | *** concerns about qgil's suggestion to go into "maintenance mode" might cause bit rot
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- | ** qgil calls for staying on topic, which is "what are the top priority tasks at maemo for the next 6 months". Then he claims maemo developer services has pretty much all it needs, and most of the developers will migrate to meego in a short while, so we shouldn't waste effort on improving maemo developer services
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- | ** Jaffa (and Tekojo) disagrees on the meego part of qgil. In the scope of this brainstorm impact of meego on maemo still unclear.
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- | ** Tekojo nicely summarizes: "''What it needs to do it does it already.'' Here I agree. Garage has been a fairly low maintenance, reliable service for a long time. Don't poke at it without a good reason. And if such reasons come up, Ferenc knows where to poke"
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