Hi, On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:05:26PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:16:07AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We know no-one likes reading long mails on d-d-a, so we'll keep this > > short: we'll be stopping automatic migrations of packages from unstable > > to testing - aka freezing - on June 30th. > > Meaning, anyone who'd planned to use debcamp to do some final polish on their > package which they'd like to see in the release is now stuffed, and will have > to find the time this week. The freeze date was decided in on the 4th June 2011 (over a year ago) and announced to d-d-a in 20110628183405.GR836@feta.halon.org.uk The date for Debconf was decided in October 2011. There was considerable discussion during the sprint as to when would be best, and we picked June as a date after considering when else we could freeze. We did consider the possibility of DebConf clashing, but the previous four debconfs have been held at the end of July/August. I can't speak for the DebConf team, but having orgainsed a debconf before (Edinburgh) I'm aware it can be *very* hard to get accomodation and venue available at the same time. > You've done the same thing during the previous release. No we didn't. > Is this on purpose? It depends what you mean by 'this'. Freezing when we said we would, over a year ago is very much on purpose. Freezing before DebCamp is not, but explained above and in other mails. Maintainers not fixing their packages before the well announced freeze I would hope is not. Neil --
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