[Hamara-devel] GITLAB Update

[Raju D V]

On Tuesday 05 April 2016 08:13 PM, Pirate Praveen wrote:
>
> On 2016, ഏപ്രിൽ 5 5:27:23 PM IST, Raju D V <rajudv at openmailbox.org> wrote:
>> Gitlab follows a monthly release cycle. We plan to update our git
>> server
>> frequently as and when an update gets released.
> And how many times you updated already?
We have updated it a few times already. Not sure of the number.
>
>> Switching to the gitlab package will require frequent updations in our 
>> package in repos, which will not get done in
>> short time frames.
> That is for you to decide. I wonder why though. The debian repos will have newer releases. We already have 8.5.8 in unstable and we are working on updating it to 8.6. I'm already running git.fosscommunity.in using the debian package.
>
>> Automating installations would be good for new installations, but 
>> disturbing an already working setup does not seem a good idea to me.
>>
> It is a strange argument for someone making a distro. Packages are not just for first time installation, but keeping it updated.
For now we will update the server manually. Once we update the our
debian package version to the latest & make it bug free, we'll switch to
the package.
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