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

Sun Mar 11 19:27:09 CET 2012

Am 11.03.2012 18:39, schrieb Michael Scherer:
+> 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.
+>
+OK, so for clarification: New packages which should probably be
+"leaf packages" are still allowed? Then probably i've misunderstood
+or misinterpreted some of the previous comments.
+
+Related, as we seem to miss some documentation on the freeze
+(as https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Freeze is still empty) which could have
+prevented such a discussion, do you think it's a good idea
+if i would write one up?
+
+Also i've just seen later that Manuel mentioned we already had
+this package before.
+
+Sorry for the noise :-[
+