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

Sun Mar 11 18:39:49 CET 2012

Le dimanche 11 mars 2012 à 18:12 +0100, Florian Hubold a écrit :
+> 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.
+
+As said earlier in the thread, that's not a new package, or it would
+have been able to go without asking anything.
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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