Brainstorm 2010/Garage and developer services
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This article is continued discussion from the Maemo brainstorm 2010 Please see the Brainstorm 2010 agenda for more. |
[edit] Garage and developer services
Garage, subversion and git repositories, autobuilders, issue trackers, mailing lists... what can be done to improve the Maemo application developer experience by the community?
- requests for improvements
- 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)
- 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)
- debate about alternatives
- qgil says there are better alternatives nowadays, so why put effort into improvements of the current service
- Ferenc Szekely points to functions of garage that are hard to implement in any of the alternative services, like upload privileges to extras
- Jaffa about the current setup:
- #advantages:
- familiarity between projects
- cross-project collaboration
- streamlined tools for Maemo
- single authentication/authorisation point
- svn
- #disadvantages / requests for improvement:
- poor communication in the past (move to vcs.maemo.org and drop.maemo.org)
- concerns about qgil's suggestion to go into "maintenance mode" might cause bit rot
- 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
- Jaffa (and Tekojo) disagrees on the meego part of qgil. In the scope of this brainstorm impact of meego on maemo still unclear.
- 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"