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

Thu Sep 29 22:16:51 CEST 2011

Olav Vitters skrev 29.9.2011 22:54:
+> 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.
+>
+
+I understand that, and it's good to try an plan ahead...
+
+> 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?
+>
+
+Well, it's not only about testing the gnome packages, it's also about
+the integration testing, space on isos, upgrade testing, ...
+
+> 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?
+>
+
+Well, as 3.2.x is "stabilized", it might not need so much from  3.4x
+
+and that in contrast to 3.4 wich has new features, so new stuff that can 
+break, and so on...
+
+> I'm really new to the distribution POV (though've lurked for *many*
+> years), so welcome any further insight.
+
+Well,
+we try to find a sane balance between stable and latest/greatest....
+
+It might get good PR to get latest Gnome 3.4 in Mageia 2,
+but if 3.4 turns out to be a "bad release", Mageia takes
+the hit, not upstream Gnome.
+
+--
+Thomas
+