[Mageia-dev] Backports Summary

Thu Jun 28 11:17:07 CEST 2012

2012/6/26 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
+
+Hi there
+
+
+> So,
+> we have been discussing this many times, and not gotten any
+> satisfactory decision to go ahead yet...
+>
+
+So we had our weekly meeting yesterday and backports were in topics list.
+logs : http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2012/mageia-dev.2012-06-27-19.11.html
+
+Here are all the point now we agreed on:
+
+- backports will be opened, supported with security updates and bugfix
+- opening backports for mageia 1 too, but users should be aware that
+it can potentialy create problems when upgrading, and may need to fix
+some problems manually
+- it is planned to add a warking when activating a backport media in
+drakrpm-edit-media, with checkbox to tell "don't warn anymore"
+- work is needed to add support for automatic updates of installed backports
+- mailing list will be created for backports announces
+- QA will provide updated backport validation procedure in the following days
+
+So discussion is now closed :). QA is waiting now for volunteers to
+help on validating backports. No QA, no backports!
+
+Also we need volunteers to work on
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317. At the moment QA can
+hardly manage updates and backports while this is not solved. So again
+volunteers needed!
+
+Cheers
+
+-- 
+Anne
+http://www.mageia.org
+