[Mageia-dev] Xfce 4.10 released

Sun Apr 29 13:28:57 CEST 2012

2012/4/29 Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa at gmail.com>:
+> On 29.04.2012 12:55, zezinho wrote:
+>> Em 29-04-2012 09:43, Jani Välimaa escreveu:
+>>> I know it's not the right time for this, but I'm wondering if we could
+>>> push new Xfce 4.10 also to updates for upcoming mga2?
+>>
+>> Only when backports media is available : there is no reason to change
+>> our policy for updates.
+>
+> We don't need to change our policy, only turn a blind eye to it. And as
+> we don't have backport repos yet and haven't seen any progress making
+> them available, updates are the only choice. Also, it was done for KDE
+> update in mga1. So, why not for another DE?
+>
+> Currently we have a mixture of unstable (4.10 pre) and stable (4.8) Xfce
+> pkgs in our repos. IMHO it would be good to have stable versions
+> available to provide as good user experience for Xfce users as possible.
+> I've heard that some users switched to another distro because our Xfce
+> is outdated in mga1. I don't want to see this happening again.
+>
+> P.S. I'm fine to push new Xfce to backports, but we really need to do
+> something to make backports available after mga2 release.
+
+Are xfce 4.9.x considered as development/testing/unstable releases?
+If so, I think pushing the stable 4.10 release into mageia2 still fits
+our policy.
+