Bug#771944: closed by Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org> (Re: Bug#771944: Following FusionForge 5.3 stable branch)

[beuc@debian.org]

Control: reopen -1

> don't complain about the communication style of the release team
> when they have to cope with hundreds of inquiries

Let's reopen the bug and discuss this after the freeze period, you're
not in a situation to accept comments AFAICS.

- Sylvain

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:29:34AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> (Uh, for the record, I am not a release team members, either)
> 
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:24:39AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:57:04AM +0100, beuc@debian.org wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 09:29:28AM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > > On 2015-02-16 9:20, beuc@debian.org wrote:
> > > > >On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:46:11AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > > > >>If you want more changes to be considered, don't they need to be
> > > > >>uploaded first?  In that case, now is quite late.
> > > > >
> > > > >is a bit easy, I believe we made the effort to contact you as
> > > > >mentioned in your FAQ.  Don't blame us :/
> > > > 
> > > > There appears to be some confusion here, so for clarity - Michael is
> > > > not a member of the release team.
> > > 
> > > Should this be a showcase of "everything that could go wrong when
> > > contacting the release team"?
> > 
> > Why?  I think there were a lot of inquiries like yours - and basically
> > all of them were turned down for the freeze. (Maybe you can discuss this
> > again after the jessie release for a stable update, I don't know whether
> > that might work).
> > 
> > If anything, maybe "don't complain about the communication style of the
> > release team when they have to cope with hundreds of inquiries, and you
> > only with your own one" and "don't point at PostgreSQL and threaten to
> > upload beta software just before the next freeze" might be useful points
> > to keep in mind.