Xfce development and release model

[Stephan Arts]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jannis Pohlmann<jannis at xfce.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 11:15:01 +0200
> Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> To bring this up again... I'd like to release a 0.3 alpha version of
>> the terminal somewhere at the end of this week. The question is,
>> should I treat the Terminal as part of the goodies or core components?
>>
>> Until now there has been a release of the terminal together with the
>> Xfce releases and the new release policy allows development releases
>> during the dev. phase, but how? Where do I upload the tarballs if it's
>> a core component?
>
> You are free to release it independently of the rest of Xfce. It's true
> though that we don't have a plan on how to organize the release
> archives yet. Did we decide anything on the goodie/core status of
> Terminal by the way? I think Brian listed it as a goodie in his git
> repository structure proposal.
>
> Releasing it as a goodie would be the least painful way at this point
> because the infrastructure for that is in place. But we will soon need
> reorganize the release archive because I'm planning to release tumbler
> and probably garcon (aka libxfce4menu) later this summer, and those are
> definitely not goodies.
>
> Basically, instead of the current
>
>  /xfce-4.4.0
>    src/
>    fat_tarballs/
>    installers/
>  /xfce-4.6.0
>    src/
>    fat_tarballs/
>    installers/
>  /xfce-4.6.1
>    src/
>    fat_tarballs/
>    installers/
>
> I could imagine using the same layout as for the git repositories:
>
>  /xfce
>    exo/
>      0.3/
>        exo-0.3.100.tar.bz2
>        exo-0.3.101.tar.bz2
>      0.4/
>        exo-0.4.0.tar.bz2
>    xfwm4/
>      4.6/
>        xfwm4-4.6.0.tar.bz2
>        xfwm4-4.6.1.tar.bz2
>      4.7/
>        xfwm4-4.7.0.tar.bz2
>  /goodies
>    terminal/
>      0.2/
>        ...
>  /libs
>    garcon/
>      0.1/
>        ...
>      0.2/
>        ...
>
> Then the question is: what to do with Xfce group releases? GNOME does
> something like this:
>
>  /gnome (well, they have it split up into bindings/, platform/ etc.)
>    2.26.0/
>      sources/
>        <all tarballs of the release are in here>
>    2.26.1/
>      sources/
>        <all tarballs of the release are in here>
>  /sources
>    GConf/
>      0.1/
>        <tarballs>
>      0.2/
>        <tarballs>
>    nautilus/
>      ...
>
> We could do something similar and use:
>
>  /xfce
>    4.4.0/
>      fat_tarballs/
>      src/
>      installers/
>    4.6.0/
>      fat_tarballs/
>      src/
>      installers/
>    4.6.1/
>      ...
>  /src
>    xfce/
>      exo/
>        0.3/
>          exo-0.3.100.tar.bz2
>          exo-0.3.101.tar.bz2
>        0.4/
>          exo-0.4.0.tar.bz2
>      xfwm4/
>        4.6/
>          xfwm4-4.6.0.tar.bz2
>          xfwm4-4.6.1.tar.bz2
>        4.7/
>          ...
>   goodies/
>     terminal/
>        0.2/
>          ...
>        0.3/
>          ...
>    libs/
>      garcon/
>        0.1/
>          ...
>        0.2/
>          ...
>
> We can already do this NOW (together with updating the website) and
> have someone upload tarballs manually until we have something similar
> to the goodies release manager.
>
> Toughts?

+1

-
Stephan