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

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 09:18 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> 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.
Ah ok. 
> 
> 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.

Its just not about the the 3 hour release/tarball/sanity. But the amount
of extra effort we put to review patches for stable, etc. Anyways, I
think if more and more people ask for it, lets see if we can work out a
schedule post .3.

-Srini.