Bug#469353: [request-tracker-maintainers] RT 3.8 coming soon. How can BPS help you guys out?
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:12:52PM -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> Hey folks. We're about 2 weeks from releasing RT 3.8.0, which _I_
> think is a heck of a lot nicer than RT 3.6.6. Is there anything we at
> BPS can do to help get RT 3.8 into Lenny or is it too late for that?
Hi Jesse,
many thanks for the offer, much appreciated. Unfortunately, I think the
chances of getting 3.8 into Lenny are low.
The release schedule currently says a full freeze will start in the
mid of July. As each major RT version is packaged separately to allow
co-installation, 3.8.0 will be considered a new package, and those aren't
accepted during a freeze.
New packages need several weeks anyway to get to a state where they are
considered for a release (at least ~1 week in the 'NEW' queue for manual
license/copyright checks, + 10 days in the 'unstable' distribution so
the worst bugs are found out).
There hasn't been a release update lately so I don't know how realistic
the schedule is looking. It's possible that the freeze will be delayed,
but we can't really count on that.
Our manpower situation is also quite bad. I'm currently pretty much
the only one active on the Debian RT team, and my request for help
(http://bugs.debian.org/469353, Cc'd) hasn't caught any attention so far.
As maintaining the perl package is currently my first priority in Debian,
I just don't have the time, and I also intend to spend most of July on
a family vacation...
So, unless you are prepared to go the whole way and get someone (not me,
I've got the vacation) to put together a policy-compliant Debian package
very soon and preferably commit to maintaining it, things are looking
quite bad. Sorry :(
I'll try to get 3.6.7 in at least.
--
Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
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