Maemo Extras Future Mikhail Sobolev Ed Bartosh Alexander Kanevskiy Niels Breet You ??? Maemo Summit 2008-09-20 Garage project: extras-cauldron

Mikhail Sobolev

Ed Bartosh

Alexander Kanevskiy

Niels Breet

You ???

Current situation - Good Autobuilder Promoter Assistant Maemo Summit 2008-09-20 Autobuilder and Extras statistics Diablo: Contributors: 145 Packages: 637 Builds mailing list: Q1: 3KB Q2: 46KB Q3: 130KB

Autobuilder

Promoter

Assistant

Autobuilder and Extras statistics

Diablo:

Contributors: 145

Packages: 637

Current situation – Bad Packaging policy violations Non standard categories Packages can break SSU Maemo Summit 2008-09-20

Packaging policy violations

Non standard categories

Packages can break SSU

Current situation – Ugly Huge number of external repositories Why is it ugly to have a lot of repositories? Users are unable to easily find packages Users experience conflicts between repositories Unable to do quality testing on huge amount of repositories. maemo.nokia.com – Is not able to hand pick packages from external repositories. Even large projects like Debian & Ubuntu aren't able to sustain too many repositories. Maemo Summit 2008-09-20

Huge number of external repositories

Why is it ugly to have a lot of repositories?

Users are unable to easily find packages

Users experience conflicts between repositories

Unable to do quality testing on huge amount of repositories.

maemo.nokia.com – Is not able to hand pick packages from external repositories.

Even large projects like Debian & Ubuntu aren't able to sustain too many repositories.

Let's improve! Reduce the number of external repositories Build all source package available in external repositories Show status of builds Try to discover missing sources Help developers to fix build problems Convince developers to move their packages to Extras. Convince teams inside Nokia to do the same. Maemo Summit 2008-09-20

Reduce the number of external repositories

Build all source package available in external repositories

Show status of builds

Try to discover missing sources

Help developers to fix build problems

Convince developers to move their packages to Extras.

Convince teams inside Nokia to do the same.

Near future plans Add Autobuilder checks (Warnings!) Lintian (Policy) package versions prevent upload package to extras twice report problems with applications that have dependencies on packages only available in SDK repository. report problems with package which are breaking SSU. Maemo Summit 2008-09-20

Add Autobuilder checks (Warnings!)

Lintian (Policy)

package versions

prevent upload package to extras twice

report problems with applications that have dependencies on packages only available in SDK repository.

report problems with package which are breaking SSU.

Ideas Remove the requirement for signed packages Automatic submit to autobuider by a commit to garage VCS. Package build status page on web Application testing by the community? Add voting for package promotion to website. Central location for reporting broken packages. Multi-package builds Maemo Summit 2008-09-20

Remove the requirement for signed packages

Automatic submit to autobuider by a commit to garage VCS.

Package build status page on web

Application testing by the community?

Add voting for package promotion to website.

Central location for reporting broken packages.

Multi-package builds

Thanks! Questions? Maemo Summit 2008-09-20

Questions?