Re: announcements on www.gnome.org
>> "PM" == Paolo Molaro <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> writes:
PM> I made it: we need to get more visibilty for the slink packages.
Sure. We will plaster it aroung slashdot. c.o.l.a, debian-announce,
debian-user and whoever. But not yet.
I want the thing to be of consistent shape when it is announced. It is
not good to through a couple of packages at users without giving them
instructions. The ones who don't need instructions already use the
staging area.
PM> The packages are almost done (for i386, anyway, other arches need
PM> to fire up the autobuilders).
If it can be autobuild , then it would be cool. But I doubt it
somehow. At least if the autobuilder doesn't know about the order to
build the stuff. For the other matter, I don't thing they are any
autobuilders following the staging area.
As a matter of fact, due to a bug in jinstallpackage, the Packages.gz
files in any arch besides i386 are empty.
I am all for alpha, sparc etc. packages for GNOME and they should be
distributed _after_ they have reached the state the i386 packages are
in. After all this is for stable. If we can't guarantie stability
because there was no freeze and testing etc., then we should at least
guarantie a consistant shape and usability.
PM> Maybe it was a bit premature, but I don't think we should delay
PM> this even more. What does subject to change means?
We have waited long enough, we can wait a few days more. Pushing this
out for what it's worth now doesn't do any good. I published the
things that are left to do. There a only a few, and my timeframe is to
have it ready on monday. So hold your horses.
PM> I uploaded updated gtk packages today, so what? That will happen
PM> anyway anytime.
What is the current setup? Do you mirror the staging area once a day
or such or do you make the updates manually?
PM> How debian manages to include or not the slink packages somewhere
PM> in ftp.debian.org is not of concern here.
Maybe not for you, but I want the information to appear at debian.org
and gnome.org at the same time. debian.org *is* the place users will
go to when they hear about the new packages.
PM> I agree that someone more fluent in english can write some release
PM> notes or whatever, but we must get the word out.
Did you see the version I am preparing? It just has to be adapted to
the final situation.
http://www.debian.org/~martinb/gnome-slink.html
As I said, there is no need for this hurry. I am sorry, I am a bit
annoyed. We were recompiling things all day for over a week now,
prparing the framework for the realease, trying to make the thing
smooth, and then someone makes his premature announcement :-(
Just hold your horses, please.
Ciao,
Martin
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