[sword-devel] experimental repository & new module release procedures

[Chris Little]

Ok, I'm certainly amenable to removing experimental from 
masterRepoList.conf.

I had imagined that the name "experimental" itself would discourage 
people from adding this repo and expecting useful content. My concern 
and request that users not be directed to this repository were based on 
a practice that has become more common lately, in which a user writes to 
sword-support asking for a module in some language (e.g. Welsh or 
Japanese) and is directed to the beta module. I don't want people who 
write to complain about the RST module to be directed to the RusSynodal 
module that may replace it since it won't work without Sword 1.6.1 and a 
front end that can use av11n.

I don't mind if users download the content we have in the experimental 
repo, provided they don't expect it to work or be of decent quality.

Is there still a consensus that experimental should be removed from 
masterRepoList.conf? We could add a note field to that .conf and label 
it as "for developers only". A note field might also help clarify the 
purpose of the bible.org repo that causes some confusion. (This would of 
course not be a useable field prior to 1.6.1--but I assume that's coming 
fairly soon.)

--Chris


Nic Carter wrote:
> 
> Can I second what Matthew said?
> The experimental modules repo sounds great (& I can't wait to see how 
> broken our app is for some of those mods!), but access to it should be 
> something where the user has to specifically know about it & manually 
> add it as an install source?  And hence not suddenly available if the 
> user does an InstallMgr->refreshRemoteSourceConfiguration()  ?  :)
> 
> Thanks for your hard work  :)
> ybic
>     nic...  :)
> 
> On 06/10/2009, at 9:24 AM, Matthew Talbert wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Chris Little <chrislit at crosswire.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> I created a new repository over the weekend for experimental modules. 
>>> This
>>> repo is intended for front end developers. PLEASE DO NOT DIRECT USERS TO
>>> THIS REPOSITORY. It is not for casual users or even very many people 
>>> on this
>>> list.
>>
>> This is a very good idea.
>>
>>> It's also in the masterRepoList.conf file, for those of you whose 
>>> install
>>> managers have been updated to use this facility.
>>
>> I'm not sure about this. As it is, any user using Xiphos 3.1 or later
>> will now automatically get this repo on a refresh. To prevent this,
>> we'd have to filter out this specific repo as we're refreshing.
>> Especially with Karmic soon to be released with 3.1, that means there
>> will be tons of end-users who suddenly have this repo automatically
>> and there's nothing we can do about it.
>>
>> Everything else sounds good.
>>
>> Matthew
>>
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