Release manager webapp and archive reorganization

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:26:52 +0200
Nick Schermer <nickschermer at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I'm still working on it but the only thing missing are RSS feeds
> > and, partially, collections. I'll have it ready by the end of the
> > weekend. The code is available on http://git.xfce.org/jannis/moka/.
> >
> > What do you guys think?
> 
> Awesomeness!
> 
> > Any thoughts? If there are no objections, I'll reorganize the
> > archive this way as soon as Moka is ready for production use.
> 
> Layout looks good, doesn't really matter as long as the whole thing is
> structured the same as bugzilla/git, so this looks good. For the
> collection releases: does is also build the fat_tarballs and
> installer?

Hm, no. I guess we could make it build the fat tarball, but the
installers are more problematic because it needs a lot of manual work
for each new release. Personally, I don't really care about installers
anymore. We might as well just get rid of them in the future. If
someone wants to support them, he'd have to host them elsewhere. (Just
a suggestion.)

As for the fat tarball, we could do it in the following steps to ensure
it's not corrupted:

  1. generate the tarball when the user presses 'Save' on the
     collection release page
  2. extract the tarball somewhere 
  3. check if the checksums of the extracted tarballs match
     those of the originals
  

  - Jannis
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