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

Maarten Vanraes alien at rmail.be
Thu Mar 15 20:35:08 CET 2012


Op donderdag 15 maart 2012 18:35:04 schreef Juan Luis Baptiste:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Bertaux Xavier <bertauxx at yahoo.fr> wrote:
> >> If this is the case, then I say that xonotic should be allowed to be
> >> updated.
> > 
> > I'm not about to be okay with that, a version Freeze only accepts
> > updates on bug fixes and security warnings, so RC to Release is OK but
> > not to revision's change, otherwise that would mean that if fate xonotic
> > in version 0.7 just before the Release we should built.
> > To me this should be pushed Backport, to limit the update after Release
> 
> Backports are for new versions, not bug fixes. In this case even as
> this is a new version, the use of an older version of the game client
> with a new game server version could bring issues to users, so that
> makes this release more of a "bug fix release", because we are trying
> to avoid any possible problem to our users, not because we want to
> have the latest version of the game. If we leave the current version
> and then a user reports a problem while playing the game, the 0.6 or
> 0.7 or whatever version is available at the time would be pushed as an
> update, not as a backport.

well, the version policy is for updates.

my point here is that we should maybe equalize & simplify our policys by 
having the same kind of "exceptions" in both policies.

of course, there may be a good reason to now similar exceptions to both 
policies, it's just that atm, i don't see any.


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