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

Thu Sep 29 21:49:05 CEST 2011

Thomas Backlund skrev 29.9.2011 22:45:
+> 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.
+
+I meant 4.8 / 4.8.1
+>
+> So "maybe" we can have an open mind so far about this,
+> and re-evalute the planning in november/december...
+>
+> --
+> Thomas
+>
+
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