[Mageia-dev] GNOME 3.2 or 3.4 for Mageia 2?

Thu Sep 29 20:50:57 CEST 2011

Olav Vitters skrev 29.9.2011 21:28:
+> On http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=iso2:technical_specification it
+> has:
+> | Number	Description	Proposed by	Comment 	Bugzilla
+> | 045.	Gnome 3.2x	dmorgan	
+>
+> Found the schedule at
+> http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/07/17/mageia-2-release-cycle-support-and-planning/:
+>      Alpha 1 : 16/11/2011
+>      Alpha 2 : 14/12/2011
+>      Beta 1 : 20/01/2012
+>      Versions freeze : 06/02/2012
+>      Artwork freeze: 10/02/2012
+>      i18n freeze: 10/02/2012
+>      Beta 2 : 14/02/2012
+>      Releases freeze : 06/03/2012
+>      RC : 09/03/2012
+>      Final Release: 04/04/2012
+>
+>
+> Now, the (likely) GNOME 3.4 schedule )https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree) has:
+> UI freeze:	February 20 2012
+> String freeze:	March 05 2012
+> Code freze:	March 19 2012
+> 3.4 release:	March 28 2012
+>
+> The last 3.2 release (3.2.2): Nov 16 2011
+>
+>
+> My proposal is to use GNOME 3.4 for Mageia 2 as these freezes (to me) seem to
+> integrate well.
+>
+
+And you can obviously guarantee that the gnome release schedule wont slip...
+
+By the above timetable for gnome I would say that we should stay at 
+3.2x, since our release freeze (as in _nothing_ should change at this 
+point) is 2 weeks before gnome 3.4 even hits code freeze.
+
+--
+Thomas
+