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

Thu Feb 21 17:07:43 CET 2013

Le jeudi 21 février 2013 15:54:53 Colin Guthrie a écrit :
+> '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
+
+maybe we could write a blog article for this. To help on QA and packaging.
+
+This way olav you could ask for tests, etc ... 
+