[Development] Taking the new download system into production

[Knoll Lars]

On 18/05/2013, at 12:50 AM, Thiago Macieira <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:

> On sexta-feira, 17 de maio de 2013 11.37.19, Turunen Tuukka wrote:
>> We should agree practice for the community build maintainers.
>> 
>> Would the existing maintainer model fit this purpose?
>> 
>> The approach could be, e.g.:
>> 
>> 1. We agree together that there is something we want to have with Qt (such
>> has already been to large extent agreed for more MinGW configurations,
>> Ministro Android distribution and  Tizen).
>> 
>> 2. There exists someone who wants to provide the builds
>> 
>> 3. Nomination of the build maintainer is done according to our governance
>> model (similar to other maintainers)
>> 
>> 4. Sysadmin creates needed access for the appointed maintainer to place
>> packages into download.qt-project.org (e.g. under community builds)
> 
> I agree.
> 
> Our resources are limited, so having the process above (which is quite simple) 
> should suffice for builds we host.
> 
> For builds we do not host, such as Aleksey's MinGW builds, I propose we simply 
> list them in the downloads page and link directly. We should do that for Linux 
> distribution packages too.

+1 from my side. Let's go with this proposal for now.

Cheers,
Lars