Re: [Evolution-hackers] bug fixing in stable 2.22.x branch

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>]

Le mardi 02 septembre 2008 à 14:43 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan a écrit :
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:23 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > Le lundi 01 septembre 2008 à 19:55 +0200, Patrick Ohly a écrit :
> > > On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 12:37 +0530, Chenthill wrote:
> > > > 	Thanks, I will send out a mail to the list mentioning the critical
> > > > fixes which have gone in recently in the stable branch which needs to be
> > > > taken into the distro's.
> > > 
> > > Bug #548268 is in trunk (thanks Chenthill!) and tested automatically
> > > now. The test showed that the time zones in South America and Australia
> > > were also affected.
> > > 
> > > I think we should send out that bug list to the distributors ASAP.
> > > Debian Etch is already frozen. Chenthill, do you have the list ready and
> > > can you send it both to this list and the distributor list?
> > > 
> > > My own proposal for inclusion are
> > >       * 548268: time zone conversion incorrect
> > >       * 546934: [Exchange Connector] contact change tracking is broken
> > >         (required by SyncEvolution)
> > >       * 499932: [Bug 499932] Not deleting from e-mail server after specified time
> > 
> > Frankly, I think it would be much better to do a 2.22.x release for the
> > needed fix : you'll get updated translations as a bonus and
> > distributions might be more willing to push it, rather than try to apply
> > a list of patches.
> 
> I think this should be discussed at d-d-l/release-team than lowering it
> to Evolution/any-other-project. We currently follow GNOME cycle, as you
> know. Unless we hit to a serious issue, you will be always be the
> waiting for a release, where as developers would waiting for a more
> better time to do it. 

I was just talking for this particular list of bugs, not in general.

Eog or gthumb have been doing additional releases after the .3 release
for quite some time.

You could also delegate the release process to other people who would be
willing to take care of it.
-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandriva com>
Mandriva