[Mageia-dev] Meeting tonight

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le mercredi 14 septembre 2011 16:46:19, Michael scherer a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> so tonight, meeting time ( packager, bug triager, QA, and all
> are invited, and there will be free food in the fridge ( not
> mine, but yours, of course )).
> 
> Planning :
> - security updates ( ennael || misc )
> - maintainers assignation ( misc )
> - apprentice ( andre )
> 
> And that would be IMHO enough for this evening ( short, etc )

I don't know if it's the right meeting for it, but I would like us to talk 
again about bug 2317 https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317 that blocks 
updates
We tried to previously chosen solution "link from Release to Updates", but we 
run into dependency nightmares such as in the end the solution would almost 
lead to copy the whole Release media into Updates.

Without proof of the contrary, I tend to think that fixing MageiaUpdate would 
be a lot less work than the workaround we are trying to use which :
- still needs work from the sysadmins
- gives a lot of work to QA, that would be better used for testing the updates
- forces us to link a lot of packages if we really want to make sure the 
update never fails

What I would like is a firm and courageous decision (we already talked a lot of 
this issue without much progress until now) that we set a date (soon) before 
which this problem will be completely solved, whatever the way.

We really would like to have this issue solved and allow to concentrate on 
other important stuff (such as security updates for example).

Best regards

Samuel Verschelde