[Mageia-dev] Meeting tonight

[Michael Scherer]

Le mercredi 14 septembre 2011 à 17:50 +0200, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> 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).

If no one does the patch, nothing will move. And I doubt that telling
"do the patch" would make it appear, but I can try :
Samuel, can you produce a fix for the 18th september ?

( if it doesn't work, imagine me looking at you, but more focused, until
that work )
-- 
Michael Scherer