[Libosinfo] [PATCH 2/2] fedora: Add F22 info

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
<berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:16:19PM +0200, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
>> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 04:15:57PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> > Having said that, I don't think this is so much better than the the
>> > solution we already merged that it'd be worth delaying releases for
>> > (which were due day before yesterday).
>>
>> For what it's worth, libosinfo is not following GNOME release cycle.
>> The fact that GNOME Boxes maintainers decided to depend on libosinfo.git
>> is in a way Boxes problem. Making a libosinfo release to accommodate
>> Boxes makes sense, though it I'd prefer if this was anticipated and we
>> started preparing for a libosinfo release the week before for example.
>>
>> Rushing some last minute patches in, and insisting that the patches have
>> to go in before a release is pushing things a bit too far in my opinion.
>
> I think we're probably getting to the point where we should consider
> splitting the metadata off from the code. There's rarely a compelling
> reason to rush out new releases of the code, but the metadata we could
> practically be releasing on a weekly basis given the number of distros
> we track. Since new distros are generally additions only, there is
> less risk of regresssions to existing distros, when pushing out fast
> releases of the metadata whenever needed.

Good idea and I've been meaning to making that happen for a while but
in this case, we couldn't have just done that as making Fedora 21-22
install scripts working, involved adding new API and getting apps to
port to that API for it to work.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
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