[Mageia-dev] Versions freeze

Thomas Backlund tmb at mageia.org
Sat Mar 3 10:36:55 CET 2012


03.03.2012 11:24, Michael Scherer skrev:
> Le vendredi 02 mars 2012 à 20:53 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
>> Op vrijdag 02 maart 2012 20:16:11 schreef Thomas Backlund:
>>> 02.03.2012 21:08, Dimitri Jakov skrev:
>>>> Besides... GNOME 3.4 is going to be released on March 28 - does that
>>>
>>> Yes we know...
>>>
>>>> mean that we won't be able to ship it with Mageia 2?
>>>
>>> Nope, we have that as an exception to the freeze...
>>> (that's why we already run 3.3.x)
>>>
>>> we will have Gnome 3.4.x and KDE 4.8.x in Mageia 2
>>
>> also, I hope mariadb-5.5.x final (right now we have 5.5.20 which is the alpha 
>> version; beta will come quite soon, then the rc and finals follow pretty fast 
>> and these only contain bugfixes)
> 
> Next time, maybe waiting for the beta would be better, cauldron is not
> mean to be a playground for testing upstream softwares when we do not
> have a strong assurance that the stable will end i the stable release.
> 

Actually in this case it is ok, since we've been tracking upstream 5.5.x
branch with the target for 5.5.x final, so "alpha" in this case
only means fully synced with mysql 5.5 and afaik all intended mariadb
patches merged...

They are only a bit late :/


> If everybody start to do that, we spend more time on upgrading to
> version that should have been stable than fixing others bugs.
> 
> And if upstream could also try to be a little bit less original and
> follow some easy to grasp convetion about version number.
> 



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