[Mageia-dev] Meeting tonight

Wed Sep 14 20:45:03 CEST 2011

Le mercredi 14 septembre 2011 à 17:50 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> Le mercredi 14 septembre 2011 16:46:19, Michael scherer a écrit :
+> > Hi,
+> > 
+> > so tonight, meeting time ( packager, bug triager, QA, and all
+> > are invited, and there will be free food in the fridge ( not
+> > mine, but yours, of course )).
+> > 
+> > Planning :
+> > - security updates ( ennael || misc )
+> > - maintainers assignation ( misc )
+> > - apprentice ( andre )
+> > 
+> > And that would be IMHO enough for this evening ( short, etc )
+> 
+> I don't know if it's the right meeting for it, but I would like us to talk 
+> again about bug 2317 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317 that blocks 
+> updates
+> We tried to previously chosen solution "link from Release to Updates", but we 
+> run into dependency nightmares such as in the end the solution would almost 
+> lead to copy the whole Release media into Updates.
+> 
+> Without proof of the contrary, I tend to think that fixing MageiaUpdate would 
+> be a lot less work than the workaround we are trying to use which :
+> - still needs work from the sysadmins
+> - gives a lot of work to QA, that would be better used for testing the updates
+> - forces us to link a lot of packages if we really want to make sure the 
+> update never fails
+> 
+> What I would like is a firm and courageous decision (we already talked a lot of 
+> this issue without much progress until now) that we set a date (soon) before 
+> which this problem will be completely solved, whatever the way.
+> 
+> We really would like to have this issue solved and allow to concentrate on 
+> other important stuff (such as security updates for example).
+
+If no one does the patch, nothing will move. And I doubt that telling
+"do the patch" would make it appear, but I can try :
+Samuel, can you produce a fix for the 18th september ?
+
+( if it doesn't work, imagine me looking at you, but more focused, until
+that work )
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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