[Mageia-dev] Versions freeze

Sat Mar 3 10:42:49 CET 2012

Le vendredi 02 mars 2012 à 16:06 +0100, Johnny A. Solbu a écrit :
+> On Friday 02 March 2012 15:31, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> > Back in my school days when we had to do a home work project of 1
+> > month our teacher used to remind us the day before scheduled deadline
+> > - for people like me it meant to start working on the project!
+> > 
+> > Some people may be like me...
+> 
+> Maybe we should have a policy on when to remind developers on version freezes.
+> Say, one or two weeks before the freeze, so they get a chance to submit final changes.
+
+We reminded there is version freeze coming during meetings ( like
+http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2012/mageia-dev.2012-02-15-20.13.log.html#l-75 ), or what is the plan until the release ( http://meetbot.mageia.org/mageia-dev/2012/mageia-dev.2012-01-26-20.03.html ). 
+We gave the list of date in advance
+( https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_development ) and a link to the
+planning in every mail of announce, as well in blog posts and forums
+post.
+
+We have a calendar ( http://www.mageia.org/en/calendar/ ), where the
+freeze was given.  
+
+And I expect people to either be experienced packager ( ie who have
+already done 1 release and so know the rules ), or to be new packagers
+with a experienced packager ( ie mentor ) who should have explained the
+release cycle. 
+
+So if people have missed the whole plan, there is a problem that we need
+to fix, and the first step would be to collect reasons why they did
+missed it, not nag more everybody on every possible channels.
+
+For people who didn't miss and who read the mails etc, the reminder are
+annoying and the more reminder we put, the more they will start to
+ignore them. And I see no reason to annoy those that do the job and
+follow thing to help those that don't. 
+
+So if someone want to start collecting feedback, digesting it and
+present it, just say that you are volunteer on the list, and start the
+collect.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+