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

[Manfred Bergmann]

Am 06.10.2009 um 04:38 schrieb 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.

I'd say it can stay in the master repo list.
If user see this repo name and switch on their brains it doesn't need  
any more clarification.


>
> 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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