Hi, On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Thomas Koch wrote: > I'm reading debian-devel to get to know all that's needed to become a Debian > Developer. I noticed, that I did not find any documentation about transitions > or their workflow and that I can only guess, what this thread is about.
Reading debian-devel-announce and the release related mails might have given you some hints on what a transition is. > Maybe this is something that would be worth to be written down? Are you volunteering to document this in the developers-reference for example? :) A transition happen when a (backwards) incompatible change needs to be performed and when it's affecting several packages (typically a package rename due to an ABI change of a library). Usually it implies that the whole set of package has to migrate together in testing. For the sake of the release manager's sanity they have to be coordinated and planned, otherwise they get entangled together and it's getting very difficul to migrate updated packages to testing. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Like what I do? Sponsor me: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/05/5-years-of-freexian/ My Debian goals: http://ouaza.com/wp/2010/01/09/debian-related-goals-for-2010/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100414101119.gd4...@rivendell
