[Pkg-puppet-devel] Scheduled package work this week.

[Nigel Kersten]

2009/12/14 micah anderson <micah at riseup.net>

> Excerpts from Nigel Kersten's message of Mon Dec 14 12:44:41 -0500 2009:
> > Andy and I have set aside Thursday morning PST (GMT - 8)  to get the
> backlog
> > out of the way for the puppet packages.
>
> Great. I will see if I can also be available to work at this time.
>
> > On the agenda so far:
> >
> > * add the recent patch that was requested for puppetrun with tags
> > * Provide more of the ext/ directory in examples or as built in functions
> > (based on discussion on puppet-dev list upstream)
> > * split out vim/emacs support into separate packages
> > * refactor packages so that "tools are distinct from services"
> >   *  create one package for the puppet service, one for the puppetmaster
> > service, and one common package both depend on.
>
> Although I support this idea, i'm wondering how the drive by upstream
> towards a merging into one command (puppetmaster) will impact this
> work... in particular, I wonder if it might be wasted if upstream is
> going to change everything soon.
>

That was one reason I listed it towards the end of the list :)

It won't happen in the 0.25.x lifetime though, so we can always revisit this
next major version, assuming that upstream gets all this done in time for
"rowlf" the next major version.


>
> On another subject, I had another thought, which was to go through and
> cherry-pick fixes from the upcoming 0.25.2 and push them out to Debian
> before 0.25.2 is released. It seems like 0.25.2 is still a little ways
> off, but there are some particularly annoying issues in 0.25.1 that have
> received commits to fix them, and have been tested. I know I've reported
> a few and am running a multi-patched version that fixes various
> issues. I've done this in the past, and it worked fairly well.
>

Yep. I'm planning to get a sense of how far 0.25.2 is out of the rest of the
upstream community today.


>
> micah
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