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

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 07:03:36PM +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>> <zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
>> > From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>> >
>> > 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).
>> > ---
>>
>> So how about this patch?
>
> I have the same concerns about this that I do for the patch you
> proposed for Fedora rawhide. Namely that OS in libosinfo have
> some implied long term stability, but these are by definition
> moving targets.
>
> I understand your desire to include them though.
>
> Perhaps we should address this by adding a tag to the XML element
> indicating whether an OS is a formal release, or a snapshot ? That
> way apps can at least distinguish the two if they have a need to
> so, and we can declare that any OS database entry marked as a
> "snapshot" is liable to change arbitrarily over time.

Sounds good to me, as long as we agree to add 'release-date' (if
known) as I'll need that to map a specific image to a specific OS
entry in the db in the app.


-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124