[Mageia-dev] GNOME 3.2 or 3.4 for Mageia 2?

[Thomas Backlund]

Samuel Verschelde skrev 29.9.2011 22:33:
> Le jeudi 29 septembre 2011 20:28:33, Olav Vitters a écrit :
>> On http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=iso2:technical_specification it
>>
>> has:
>> | Number	Description	Proposed by	Comment 	Bugzilla
>> | 045.	Gnome 3.2x	dmorgan
>>
>> Found the schedule at
>> http://blog.mageia.org/en/2011/07/17/mageia-2-release-cycle-support-and-pla
>> nning/: Alpha 1 : 16/11/2011
>>      Alpha 2 : 14/12/2011
>>      Beta 1 : 20/01/2012
>>      Versions freeze : 06/02/2012
>>      Artwork freeze: 10/02/2012
>>      i18n freeze: 10/02/2012
>>      Beta 2 : 14/02/2012
>>      Releases freeze : 06/03/2012
>>      RC : 09/03/2012
>>      Final Release: 04/04/2012
>>
>>
>> Now, the (likely) GNOME 3.4 schedule
>> )https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree) has: UI freeze:	February 20 2012
>> String freeze:	March 05 2012
>> Code freze:	March 19 2012
>> 3.4 release:	March 28 2012
>>
>> The last 3.2 release (3.2.2): Nov 16 2011
>>
>>
>> My proposal is to use GNOME 3.4 for Mageia 2 as these freezes (to me) seem
>> to integrate well.
>
> For PR reasons, GNOME 3.4 would be great, but I fear that will not be feasible
> without delaying the Mageia 2 release date, and I'm not sure such a decision
> will be taken (if you do it for one upstream project, why not for this other
> project that releases 15 days laters, or that new kernel that looks great,
> etc.).
>

Well, comparing KDE,
http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.8_Release_Schedule

We would get KDE 4.8.1/2 within the same release time then.

So "maybe" we can have an open mind so far about this,
and re-evalute the planning in november/december...

--
Thomas