[Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic

[Michael Scherer]

Le dimanche 11 mars 2012 à 18:12 +0100, Florian Hubold a écrit :
> Am 11.03.2012 17:58, schrieb Samuel Verschelde:
> > Le dimanche 11 mars 2012 13:21:57, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> >> Le samedi 10 mars 2012 à 10:26 +0100, Thierry Vignaud a écrit :
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> please let in xonotic-0.6.0
> >>> It's just a game that impacts nothing else.
> >> Niet.
> >>
> >> That's bugfix or security fixes.
> > Communication tip for the future : when such a policy change happens (this is
> > a policy change, there were more exceptions in the past before package freeze,
> > for leaf packages without weird deps and post/pre scripts and little impact),
> > let's try to highlight it *before*.
> >
> > There was a communication effort to announce the freeze: I read freeze
> > announce, was present at the last packager meeting. However it didn't struck
> > me, it all looked like the usual end of release cycle, with their common-sense
> > exceptions.
> >
> > A message such as "contrarily as what happened in the past" (this is the
> > important part, highlight a *change*), "there will be no exception even for
> > leaf non-critical packages, so that you all focus on bugfixes, as we know that
> > otherwise you will not fix bugs and continue updating your packages".
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Samuel
> >
> I can only chime in with Stormi, in last packager meeting ennael
> said that new packages would be allowed during the freeze,
> but we should focus on bug fixes, which is comprehensible.
> Also misc didn't say anything that new packages are disallowed.

As said earlier in the thread, that's not a new package, or it would
have been able to go without asking anything.

-- 
Michael Scherer