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

Thu Mar 15 20:35:08 CET 2012

Op donderdag 15 maart 2012 18:35:04 schreef Juan Luis Baptiste:
+> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Bertaux Xavier <bertauxx at yahoo.fr> wrote:
+> >> If this is the case, then I say that xonotic should be allowed to be
+> >> updated.
+> > 
+> > I'm not about to be okay with that, a version Freeze only accepts
+> > updates on bug fixes and security warnings, so RC to Release is OK but
+> > not to revision's change, otherwise that would mean that if fate xonotic
+> > in version 0.7 just before the Release we should built.
+> > To me this should be pushed Backport, to limit the update after Release
+> 
+> Backports are for new versions, not bug fixes. In this case even as
+> this is a new version, the use of an older version of the game client
+> with a new game server version could bring issues to users, so that
+> makes this release more of a "bug fix release", because we are trying
+> to avoid any possible problem to our users, not because we want to
+> have the latest version of the game. If we leave the current version
+> and then a user reports a problem while playing the game, the 0.6 or
+> 0.7 or whatever version is available at the time would be pushed as an
+> update, not as a backport.
+
+well, the version policy is for updates.
+
+my point here is that we should maybe equalize & simplify our policys by 
+having the same kind of "exceptions" in both policies.
+
+of course, there may be a good reason to now similar exceptions to both 
+policies, it's just that atm, i don't see any.
+