[SoaS] Policy for activities for downstream inclusion

[David Farning]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what is the current status for activity releases in order to include
> them in distributions like Soas*? Do you guys need tarballs or did you
> switch over to construct the rpms from the .xo? For example the latest
> Paint rpm uses the .xo AFAIK (build even the binaries from the
> non-python sources in the bundle).
>
> And is the email from ASLO enough for packagers to know about new
> releases? Any other notification that packagers need?

In the .deb side of the universe, we prefer tarballs but we can work
directly from the git repository.

I have cced jonas for an official position.

david

> Regards,
>    Simon
>
> * Of course any other downstreams that package/include activities are
> happy to reply to this email too.
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