Re: Release planning
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:22:27AM -0300, Guilherme de S. Pastore wrote:
> Em Sáb, 2005-10-15 às 06:57 +0200, Sven Luther escreveu:
> > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:51:26PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> > > Em Sex, 2005-10-14 às 22:05 +0200, Sven Luther escreveu:
> > > > > I doubt it; that'd be an implicit one-year freeze, in practice, because
> > > > > so many important subsystems are as world-breaking as gnome is and that
> > > > > would mean a development stall;
> > > >
> > > > Well, did you read the mail from steve on d-d-a ?
> > >
> > > Yep, I quoted it on my first message, which opened this thread =)
> >
> > Oh, so you are rejecting his "major changes should be done by december idea"
> > or just read it differently than me ?
>
> No need for interpretations anymore, here's the word from the Release
> Manager:
>
> <fatalerror> vorlon: will the release team kill us if we update gnome
> after december?
> <aba> fatalerror: if you do it as neat as the last update before sarge,
> not
> <fatalerror> aba: heh, ok =)
> <fatalerror> aba: we were trying to reach a consensus on a release
> planning on d-g-g, and it seemed perfectly reasonable to ship etch with
> gnome 2.14, which should be released in March
> <fatalerror> aba: but svenl insists GNOME fits into the "world-breaking
> changes that should be done before december" category
Oh come on, i just mentioned it may be considered such and that it was worth
discussing it with the release team, and as you saw aba's response, he indeed
had some reservations, but everything should work out well enouggh now.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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