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

Sun Mar 11 18:12:54 CET 2012

Am 11.03.2012 17:58, schrieb Samuel Verschelde:
+> 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
+>
+I can only chime in with Stormi, in last packager meeting ennael
+said that new packages would be allowed during the freeze,
+but we should focus on bug fixes, which is comprehensible.
+Also misc didn't say anything that new packages are disallowed.
+
+So when did this change and who changed it? Or is it just that the
+reason given for xonotic was not enough?
+
+I'm just asking in advance, because i've not gotten around to properly
+testing qtsixa, which i wanted to add for Mageia 2 and to resolve
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3362
+Because i didn't want to import it untested, and another problem
+is that i can't spare a physical cauldron installation, which made
+testing a lot more difficult, it's not in Mageia yet.
+
+Also what about adding hardware support as e.g. needed for
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4249 ?
+Also disallowed?
+
+