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

Thu Feb 21 16:54:53 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 21/02/13 14:45 did gyre and gimble:
+> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:08:40AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 21/02/13 09:08 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>> 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.
+>>
+>> Mistakes happen. But we do need to ensure things are tidied up properly
+>> with appropriate svn revprops to silence the old commit messages to
+>> prevent them making it into built RPM changelogs.
+> 
+> Mistakes are pointed out bluntly and assigned a task, when I ask for
+> help (M2 GNOME update) I get silence.
+
+I must have missed that email. I'd be happy to help out a bit in this
+area, tho' I don't really have any mga2 machines running DE's to test on :(
+
+Can you point out the mail? Perhaps I can still do something to help?
+
+I wonder how we could attract more Gnome, erm, gnomes :) to help with
+packaging?
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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+http://colin.guthr.ie/
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