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

Thu Sep 29 21:54:59 CEST 2011

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:38:18PM +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> Olav Vitters skrev 29.9.2011 22:22:
+> >On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 09:50:57PM +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> >>And you can obviously guarantee that the gnome release schedule wont slip...
+> >
+> >Guarantee, no, but the combined total number of days delayed over the
+> >last 5 years or so is probably 1 day. The release cycle is *very*
+> >stable.
+> >
+> 
+> But as you stated its only a "likely" schedule so far,
+> and the https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree also states
+> 
+> "! Attention: This schedule is still a draft to discuss."
+
+My question is for the current intended release date of GNOME 3.4. If
+that date is moved, of course the decision will need to be taken again.
+I don't really expect any changes to the date though. And if it changes,
+of course I'll say so here. My intention is to ensure Mageia has the
+latest, but not at all costs.
+
+The schedule will be made final within 3 weeks or so btw. Early enough
+to revisit a Mageia 2 decision if the date is moved back.
+
+> so I'm not conviced so far, and it also means noe even our final RC
+> would have final gnome packages available, wich means a lot of
+> beta/rc testing wont be done on it... meaning not really a "quality
+> release"
+> for Mageia 2.
+
+Process is the same? Test the betas of GNOME 3.4, file bugs, get them
+fixed and then get new tarballs?
+
+The last stable release of GNOME 3.2 is November 23, after that date,
+any bug that Mageia finds in 3.2 will not go into anything other than
+3.4. So you can do loads of GNOME 3.2 testing, but it only causes a lot
+of extra work trying to get the 3.4 stuff into 3.2?
+
+I'm really new to the distribution POV (though've lurked for *many*
+years), so welcome any further insight.
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+