[Mageia-dev] Monitoring of new GNOME/upstream releases

Fri Jun 24 12:26:34 CEST 2011

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, Olav Vitters wrote:
+
+> Does Mageia monitor upstream releases and how?
+>
+> This as I noticed that the new Metacity release (2.34.1) is not yet in
+> Cauldron.
+>
+> GNOME has a ftp-release-list mailing list[1]. It sends out notices when new
+> modules are released. It has X- headers for easy parsing. Only thing
+> that has to be taken into account is that it could take 5min before
+> modules can be downloaded (ftp.gnome.org is a mirror, it is not the
+> place where releases are done).
+
+We have http://check.mageia.org/updates.html - it's not perfect but what 
+we currently really lack is a maintainer database. This is needed to know 
+where update notices should be sent.
+
+I made a list of gnome packages that should probably be updated (to a 
+3.0.x release). Metacity was not yet on there so I added it:
+
+accerciser
+banshee
+cheese
+epiphany-extensions ?
+evince - in progress
+gconf-editor ?
+gedit
+gnome-games
+gnome-packagekit
+gnome-themes
+gnome-user-docs
+libwnck ?
+metacity (2.34.1)
+mousetweaks
+orca
+totem
+
+
+     Christiaan
+