[Mageia-dev] Xfce 4.10 released

Sun Apr 29 14:39:35 CEST 2012

On 29.04.2012 14:28, You-Cheng Hsieh wrote:
+> 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 is outdated in mga1.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.
+
+Yes, 4.9.x ones are development releases.
+