[Mageia-dev] Xfce 4.10 released

[You-Cheng Hsieh]

2012/4/29 Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa at gmail.com>:
> On 29.04.2012 12:55, zezinho wrote:
>> Em 29-04-2012 09:43, Jani Välimaa escreveu:
>>> I know it's not the right time for this, but I'm wondering if we could
>>> push new Xfce 4.10 also to updates for upcoming mga2?
>>
>> Only when backports media is available : there is no reason to change
>> our policy for updates.
>
> We don't need to change our policy, only turn a blind eye to it. And as
> we don't have backport repos yet and haven't seen any progress making
> them available, updates are the only choice. Also, it was done for KDE
> update in mga1. So, why not for another DE?
>
> Currently we have a mixture of unstable (4.10 pre) and stable (4.8) Xfce
> pkgs in our repos. IMHO it would be good to have stable versions
> available to provide as good user experience for Xfce users as possible.
> I've heard that some users switched to another distro because our Xfce
> is outdated in mga1. I don't want to see this happening again.
>
> P.S. I'm fine to push new Xfce to backports, but we really need to do
> something to make backports available after mga2 release.

Are xfce 4.9.x considered as development/testing/unstable releases?
If so, I think pushing the stable 4.10 release into mageia2 still fits
our policy.