[Mageia-dev] Gnome mess in Mageia SVN...

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 21/02/13 14:45 did gyre and gimble:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:08:40AM +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> 'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 21/02/13 09:08 did gyre and gimble:
>>>> So you are making the same mess for upcoming mga3, that is
>>>> also in mga2 updates svn, making everyone elses work harder,
>>>> when svn does not match what's on mirrors... this is painful
>>>> for QA and security maintenance...
>>>
>>> Apologies for trying to provide a new GNOME as requested _on_my_own_ and
>>> not finishing it. Not what I wanted, but not done on purpose.
>>
>> Mistakes happen. But we do need to ensure things are tidied up properly
>> with appropriate svn revprops to silence the old commit messages to
>> prevent them making it into built RPM changelogs.
> 
> Mistakes are pointed out bluntly and assigned a task, when I ask for
> help (M2 GNOME update) I get silence.

I must have missed that email. I'd be happy to help out a bit in this
area, tho' I don't really have any mga2 machines running DE's to test on :(

Can you point out the mail? Perhaps I can still do something to help?

I wonder how we could attract more Gnome, erm, gnomes :) to help with
packaging?

Col

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