Re: 3.25.90 will probably be delayed

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Sat, 2017-08-12 at 17:47 -0500, mcatanzaro gnome org wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> 
> wrote:
> > What usually happened in the past was that the older version was
> > used
> > when such a problem happened, which would hopefully have
> > streamlined
> > the process somewhat ("I used this old version because that new
> > one...).
>
> Yes.
>
> The problem this time is that I don't know what components are even
> to 
> blame for these issues.  E.g. in the PackageKit bug it's not clear
> if 
> the underlying issue is in PackageKit, or gobject-introspection, or 
> glib itself. Since we don't know where the bug is, I don't know
> which 
> package I can hold back.

Right, that's a fair assessment. Might be useful to check afterwards
why the problem wasn't hit on C-I, or jhbuild before you ran into it.

> > Quite a bit of time was also spent on e-mailing maintainers (myself
> > included) that didn't make releases after porting to projects to
> > Meson
> > but changing jhbuild modulesets. I really think that somebody needs
> > to
> > spend the time finding and implementing a solution for this
> > problem.
>
> We're migrating away from jhbuild and this is a one-time issue, so I 
> don't think it's worth spending time on. The solution is to make a
> new 
> release sometime before the release is due if you switch to meson at 
> the same time that you delete the Autotools build.
>
> It's annoying to do for 15 modules, which is why I sent out mails,
> but 
> it's also easy to work around by just changing the build type in the 
> release moduleset.

If that's not something that you spent a lot of time on and didn't
block the release on, then don't mind me.