[Mageia-dev] Versions freeze

Sat Mar 3 23:31:49 CET 2012

Op zaterdag 03 maart 2012 10:36:55 schreef Thomas Backlund:
+> 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...
+
+yes, and so far that haven't been any complaints yet, waiting for mikala, 
+since he's the most likely person to have issues about it.
+
+> They are only a bit late :/
+
+yes :-(
+
+allthough according to upstream, there seems to be a good chance it will be 
+released as final quite quickly
+
+> > 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.
+
+yes, it seems they will upgrade the version to +1 for beta and so forth.
+
+but they consider the major versions 5.5 the real version. but still, took me 
+a while to figure it out...
+