[Mageia-dev] [RFC] How to proceed with seamonkey/iceape for security updates and freeze push

Sat Apr 7 21:25:01 CEST 2012

Op zaterdag 07 april 2012 21:14:00 schreef Florian Hubold:
+> Am 07.04.2012 20:59, schrieb Maarten Vanraes:
+> > Op zaterdag 07 april 2012 20:50:03 schreef Florian Hubold:
+> >> Am 05.04.2012 14:19, schrieb Romain d'Alverny:
+> >>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 08:11, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+> >>>> Op woensdag 04 april 2012 22:59:30 schreef Florian Hubold:
+> >>>>> As there was no real objection, and no other comments
+> >>>>> or votes for iceape, i've dropped it from cauldron. FWIW i'm quite
+> >>>>> unhappy with this. Related, i've also not got any reply yet to my
+> >>>>> aforementioned inquiry about mozilla branding permissions.
+> >>>> 
+> >>>> About the mozilla branding...
+> >>>> 
+> >>>> Perhaps this should be a meeting point for packaging/council
+> >>>> meeting...
+> >>>> 
+> >>>> ie: someone assigned to this point so it's not forgotten.
+> >>> 
+> >>> Would have been good to raise this point in Council way sooner. No
+> >>> other than the maintainers may answer both questions (about changes,
+> >>> and about contact/permissions from Mozilla). For Firefox it's dmorgan
+> >>> and for Thunderbird it's anssi.
+> >> 
+> >> For thunderbird it's actually me, Anssi grabbed it on my behalf
+> >> when i was still apprentice ;)
+> > 
+> > no offense, but if you're the thunderbird maintainer, why don't you ask
+> > mozilla about it? tell them if we're not getting this official
+> > permission we won't ship it and do the iceape thing instead...
+> 
+> Did you read my previous mails? I've asked Kev Needham,
+> mozilla distribution channel manager, about the approval
+> process, sadly no answer yet.
+
+ah, mea culpa, i must've missed a few
+
+and too bad though...
+
+you can ask a few more people and CC some of the "important people" (or ones 
+having good connections) like annael, stewb or such...
+
+otoh, "silence is acceptance" is one of my favourite sayings...
+