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

Sat Apr 7 23:48:59 CEST 2012

Am 07.04.2012 21:25, schrieb Maarten Vanraes:
+> 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...
+>
+Well, when i pointed out those branding issues before,
+noone was interested either, here on this list ...
+