[Mageia-dev] Versions freeze

Sat Mar 3 10:36:55 CET 2012

03.03.2012 11:24, Michael Scherer skrev:
+> Le vendredi 02 mars 2012 à 20:53 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
+>> Op vrijdag 02 maart 2012 20:16:11 schreef Thomas Backlund:
+>>> 02.03.2012 21:08, Dimitri Jakov skrev:
+>>>> Besides... GNOME 3.4 is going to be released on March 28 - does that
+>>>
+>>> Yes we know...
+>>>
+>>>> mean that we won't be able to ship it with Mageia 2?
+>>>
+>>> Nope, we have that as an exception to the freeze...
+>>> (that's why we already run 3.3.x)
+>>>
+>>> we will have Gnome 3.4.x and KDE 4.8.x in Mageia 2
+>>
+>> also, I hope mariadb-5.5.x final (right now we have 5.5.20 which is the alpha 
+>> version; beta will come quite soon, then the rc and finals follow pretty fast 
+>> and these only contain bugfixes)
+> 
+> Next time, maybe waiting for the beta would be better, cauldron is not
+> mean to be a playground for testing upstream softwares when we do not
+> have a strong assurance that the stable will end i the stable release.
+> 
+
+Actually in this case it is ok, since we've been tracking upstream 5.5.x
+branch with the target for 5.5.x final, so "alpha" in this case
+only means fully synced with mysql 5.5 and afaik all intended mariadb
+patches merged...
+
+They are only a bit late :/
+
+
+> If everybody start to do that, we spend more time on upgrading to
+> version that should have been stable than fixing others bugs.
+> 
+> And if upstream could also try to be a little bit less original and
+> follow some easy to grasp convetion about version number.
+> 
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