[Mageia-dev] Version freeze: reminder

Sun Mar 11 14:02:12 CET 2012

Le dimanche 11 mars 2012 à 01:59 +0100, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+> On 8 March 2012 11:31, Anne nicolas <ennael at mageia.org> wrote:
+> > Version freeze is now active. As a reminder please have a look here
+> > https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2012-March/012533.html
+> >
+> > for more details.
+> 
+> For years, the freeze never impacted our own tools since  unless
+> packages we are not upstream, we prefer to release than patch
+> (which also helps get latest translations).
+> Now, drakx* stuff got blocked.
+
+For years, the whole stack have been developped in the last minute. 
+
+> So I would request we relax the freeze for our own stuff.
+> else It'll made pushing fixes quite slow & painfull.
+> 
+> In worst case, instead of pushing the stack in ~30mns, it may
+> takes days.
+> eg if I fix sg in urpmi, I've to wait for someone to actually push urpmi
+> before asking to push drakx-installer-stage2 with new urpmi.
+
+Yes. Or you can backport the fix as patch. Or say "that's just a bugfix"
+release. 
+
+> eg if I fix sg in rpm, I've to wait for someone to actually push rpm
+> before asking to push perl-URPM to drakx-installer-stage2.
+
+Perl-URPM would not require a version upgrade, so would not need anyone
+to push, as well as drakxinstall-stage2.
+
+Since a fix to rpm would be a patch, that's also no a version upgrade.
+
+So for version freeze, there is no need of anything special.
+
+And for release freeze, I would hope that we do not need fix that
+requires to rebuild 4 differents rpms. At least not more than once...
+
+> It can become way more painful for eg:
+> dietlibc fix>kmod|ldetect>drakx-installer-binaries>drakx-installer-images
+> eg: if would fix sg in dietlibc for kmod.
+> Thus I would have 4 requests with delays between each.
+> 
+> Or enable me to push new perl-URPM/urpmi/drakx* like I was able to
+> do in the old days
+
+No, for the aformentioned reasons.
+
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