Branched for F11

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2009/6/7 Orcan Ogetbil <oget.fedora at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 30.05.2009 15:45, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> On 27.05.2009 22:12, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>>> On 27.05.2009 20:01, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> But I'd guess nobody should build anything in the devel branch anymore
>>> over the next few days apart from critical bugfixes to make sure we
>>> don't introduce any new bugs in those repos. Hence I plan to review any
>>> package updates a bit closer before pushing them. If something odd comes
>>> up I'll ask packagers or this list for advice.
>>
>> kwizart build a new totally new nvidia driver (180 -> 185) for devel/F11
>> release repos:
>>
>> http://buildsys.rpmfusion.org/build-status/job.psp?uid=4139
>> http://buildsys.rpmfusion.org/build-status/job.psp?uid=4138
>>
>> It might be quite an important component, but problems with it can
>> (seldomly) damage hardware and if something is wrong with that package
>> it can bite users for the next 13 months. Thus I'm quite unwilling to
>> push this to the F11 release repos at this point with F11 only three
>> days away. A few days updates-testing for F11 IMHO is the way better
>> place IMHO.
>>
>> Thus I didn't push it yet. Does someone agree/disagree with that
>> (kwizart obviously will disagree, asking more for other opinions here)?
>> If enough people disagree then I can still push it, but if something is
>> wrong then it might get hard to fix (which would cost quite a bit of my
>> time, which I don't have right now) because rawhide might move on
>> today/tomorrow and thus would need another round of mock adjustments on
>> all builders.
>>
>> CU
>> knurd
>>
>
> My user perspective: I've been using the 185 driver for a couple days
> now without any problems. It won't be a problem for me if me include
> 185 in the F-11 release repo.
>
> My packager perspective: I agree with you on this. The 185 package
> didn't get enough testing time. But can we ship the 180 driver in the
> F-11 release repo at least?
nvidia packages aren't meant to be tested via RPMFusion as answeared
in the users mailing list..

I need to leave at this time, but for now, keeping nvidia drivers in
the release repository is wost than everything... So the question
disappear:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=646
Please do remove nvidia's from releases

Nicolas (kwizart)