[Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

Sun Mar 11 17:58:41 CET 2012

Le dimanche 11 mars 2012 13:21:57, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> Le samedi 10 mars 2012 à 10:26 +0100, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
+> > Hi
+> > 
+> > please let in xonotic-0.6.0
+> > It's just a game that impacts nothing else.
+> 
+> Niet.
+> 
+> That's bugfix or security fixes.
+
+Communication tip for the future : when such a policy change happens (this is 
+a policy change, there were more exceptions in the past before package freeze, 
+for leaf packages without weird deps and post/pre scripts and little impact), 
+let's try to highlight it *before*.
+
+There was a communication effort to announce the freeze: I read freeze 
+announce, was present at the last packager meeting. However it didn't struck 
+me, it all looked like the usual end of release cycle, with their common-sense 
+exceptions.
+
+A message such as "contrarily as what happened in the past" (this is the 
+important part, highlight a *change*), "there will be no exception even for 
+leaf non-critical packages, so that you all focus on bugfixes, as we know that 
+otherwise you will not fix bugs and continue updating your packages". 
+
+Best regards
+
+Samuel
+