[SoaS] Policy for activities for downstream inclusion

[Walter Bender]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, David Farning <dfarning at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Is it not still the practice to put tarballs on download.sl.o ???

-walter

>
> 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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