On Montag 25 Januar 2010, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 25 January 2010 23:11:18 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > Today it is finally released. I don't know why it took so long. :) > > > > It's a bit sad though that an open source project keeps secrets... I > > found out that the tarballs were available for days now but only for > > maintainers of KDE packages of various distros. For example Arch Linux > > had RC2 binaries available in its [kde-unstable] repo since Jan 21, but > > no one would give a link to the tarballs used to build the sources > > because they are "secret". > > > > Am I the only one to find this frustrating (to say the least)? > > There's nothing secret here. Nothing to see, move along folks. > > The code is always available in svn, if you wanted it that bad you could > have checked it out. It's common release engineering practice to build a > tarball from the repo and provide limited access to *those* files to > distros and mirrors to give them time to sync and build their binaries > before making them available to the public. I mirror Ubuntu and Fedora. > The deal is that I get the rpms and debs two days before the public does. > This is so that every official mirror on the planet is ready to > simultaneously publish the release *all*at*the*same*time*. > > This is a very excellent way of working. You have no idea how much chaos > thousands of eager beaver users cause pounding away at my inbox if I don't > have the latest Ubuntu for them the day it is released because sharks bit > the undersea cable to London and the inbound bandwidth slows to a crawl. > I'm not making this up - stuff like this happens. > > Gentoo erred in publishing ebuilds for tarballs that were not generally > available yet. >
no, the user erred in stupid unmasking.
