[Libosinfo] [PATCH 3/4] gnome: Add info for gnome-continuous 3.12

Fabiano Fidencio fidencio at redhat.com
Tue Nov 26 16:38:01 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 16:22 +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Fabiano Fidencio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Zeeshan,
> >
> > On Tue, 2013-11-26 at 16:00 +0000, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> gnome-continuous is continuous integration system so images produced by
> >> it track the git master of all modules and now that GNOME 3.10 is out and
> >> many projects have branched for 3.10 maintainance, these images are
> >> already 3.12 (3.11 at the moment but thats splitting hair I guess).
> >
> > I'd like (to try) to explain why gnome-continuous-3.12 is something that
> > doesn't make sense to me.
> >
> > The idea I have of using gnome-continuous is that I'll always be using
> > git master. Is that right?
> > Considering that I'm always using git master, why should it refer 3.12,
> > 3.14, whatever?
> > Would I be able, in the future (2 years from now), to create and use a
> > gnome-continuous-3.12 virtual machine? I don't think so and it's the
> > reason I don't believe we should have it "versioned".
> 
> Sure but there is nothing stopping you from doing that. If you got a
> 3.12 image at the time of 3.18, Boxes (or any app) should be about to
> tell that it is a 3.12 image and not a 3.18 one.

Okay, it will have an image like GNOME-3.12, for instance?
Because, from my point of view, it is something clearly distinct from
the GNOME-Continuous and should not be represented as the same by
libosinfo.




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