[Mageia-dev] Gnome mess in Mageia SVN...

Thu Feb 21 10:08:04 CET 2013

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 01:10:33AM +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> Can you _please_ kill your automatic upload scripts...
+
+done.
+
+> It should have been killed as soon as we hit version freeze.
+> 
+> It's making a mess in Mageia SVN.
+> 
+> I see several uploads by "ovitters", but no freeze push requests,
+> and also some 3.7.90 stuff getting uploaded and seveal version
+> bumps that is not "bugfixes only"...
+
+3.7.90? It will not upload that. It will only upload if someone before
+uploaded such a version.
+
+> I see a new NetworkManager also just ended up in SVN, despite
+> iirc you earlier stated you'd probly need to roll down to an
+> older one...
+
+Indeed, seems that there is a still a bug.
+
+> So you are making the same mess for upcoming mga3, that is
+> also in mga2 updates svn, making everyone elses work harder,
+> when svn does not match what's on mirrors... this is painful
+> for QA and security maintenance...
+
+Apologies for trying to provide a new GNOME as requested _on_my_own_ and
+not finishing it. Not what I wanted, but not done on purpose.
+
+> Automated scripts can be ok during open cauldron, but _never_
+> when we try to stabilize for a release.
+
+Meanwhile, Mageia 3 keeps getting delayed and delayed and not due to me.
+
+> So ... once again... please kill the script, clean up svn,
+> revert packages to latest stable, and try to focus on providing
+> a good / fully updated Gnome 3.6 will be available for Mga3.
+
+I rather take a break from Mageia.
+
+And I hate these personal email habits. CC'ing mageia-dev.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+