RFC: Release Management Going Forward

[Rex Dieter]

On 06/21/2011 06:41 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:

>>> So you want the fine grained tarballs, if I understand correctly ?

>> Just looking at how the openSUSE buildservice is set up, they seem to
>> use fine-grained tarballs as well, although I don't know how closely
>> those match to the breakdown you are using.
>
> We're using them, and the consensus among the team so far is that they allow
> faster builds (broader dependency tree instead of deeper) and isolate failures
> better. These are the kde.org tarballs; is anyone using their own??

Fwiw, in fedora, we hacked the 4.6.80 kde.org tarballs and build-process 
to be as-close-to-monolithic as possible.

-- Rex