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

Thu Sep 29 21:45:54 CEST 2011

Samuel Verschelde skrev 29.9.2011 22:33:
+> Le jeudi 29 septembre 2011 20:28:33, Olav Vitters a écrit :
+>> 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-pla
+>> nning/: 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.
+>
+> For PR reasons, GNOME 3.4 would be great, but I fear that will not be feasible
+> without delaying the Mageia 2 release date, and I'm not sure such a decision
+> will be taken (if you do it for one upstream project, why not for this other
+> project that releases 15 days laters, or that new kernel that looks great,
+> etc.).
+>
+
+Well, comparing KDE,
+http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.8_Release_Schedule
+
+We would get KDE 4.8.1/2 within the same release time then.
+
+So "maybe" we can have an open mind so far about this,
+and re-evalute the planning in november/december...
+
+--
+Thomas
+