[cut-team] CUT discussion summary for -project@

[Anthony Towns]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:47, Joey Hess <joeyh at debian.org> wrote:
> I wonder if the _HHMMSS in the suite name is really needed. If we need 2
> cuts in the same day, we're surely doing something wrong?

It was more so that the version was reproducible -- anyone could
figure out what "cut_yyyymmddhhmmss"  should contain, just by looking
at testing's release file (to match the timestamp) and its contents
(to work out what debs go in there).

But maybe that doesn't work right anyway if we've got the possibility
of doing a few updates, and thus isn't worth worrying about?

> For that matter,
> we could simplify the YYYYMMDD to YYMM if it seemed to make sense with
> whatever release frequency develops.

(I find YY instead of YYYY lame. Call it long term effects to Y2K :)

So that'd be:

   - create cut-new
   - find it doesn't work
   - update it
   - find it doesn't work
   - update it
   - find it does work! yay!
   - finish d-i stuff etc
   - release it as cut-2010-09

That sounds pretty workable to me.

Cheers,
aj

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Anthony Towns <aj at erisian.com.au>