[Mageia-dev] [RFC] How to proceed with seamonkey/iceape for security updates and freeze push

Maarten Vanraes alien at rmail.be
Sat Apr 7 21:25:01 CEST 2012


Op zaterdag 07 april 2012 21:14:00 schreef Florian Hubold:
> Am 07.04.2012 20:59, schrieb Maarten Vanraes:
> > Op zaterdag 07 april 2012 20:50:03 schreef Florian Hubold:
> >> Am 05.04.2012 14:19, schrieb Romain d'Alverny:
> >>> On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 08:11, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
> >>>> Op woensdag 04 april 2012 22:59:30 schreef Florian Hubold:
> >>>>> As there was no real objection, and no other comments
> >>>>> or votes for iceape, i've dropped it from cauldron. FWIW i'm quite
> >>>>> unhappy with this. Related, i've also not got any reply yet to my
> >>>>> aforementioned inquiry about mozilla branding permissions.
> >>>> 
> >>>> About the mozilla branding...
> >>>> 
> >>>> Perhaps this should be a meeting point for packaging/council
> >>>> meeting...
> >>>> 
> >>>> ie: someone assigned to this point so it's not forgotten.
> >>> 
> >>> Would have been good to raise this point in Council way sooner. No
> >>> other than the maintainers may answer both questions (about changes,
> >>> and about contact/permissions from Mozilla). For Firefox it's dmorgan
> >>> and for Thunderbird it's anssi.
> >> 
> >> For thunderbird it's actually me, Anssi grabbed it on my behalf
> >> when i was still apprentice ;)
> > 
> > no offense, but if you're the thunderbird maintainer, why don't you ask
> > mozilla about it? tell them if we're not getting this official
> > permission we won't ship it and do the iceape thing instead...
> 
> Did you read my previous mails? I've asked Kev Needham,
> mozilla distribution channel manager, about the approval
> process, sadly no answer yet.

ah, mea culpa, i must've missed a few

and too bad though...

you can ask a few more people and CC some of the "important people" (or ones 
having good connections) like annael, stewb or such...

otoh, "silence is acceptance" is one of my favourite sayings...


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