Re: [Evolution-hackers] Maintenance fork for Evolution / EDS 2.32

[Chenthill Palanisamy <pchenthill gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 20:07 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> That's great; thanks. I'll do a little more testing on the patches
>> I've cherry-picked into my trees, and then unless someone else has
>> objected in the meantime I'll push them.
>
>        Hi,
> I objected against this many times, directly to you, on IRC, with no
> effect, obviously. If I recall correctly, the reason why release-team
> decreased releases is that distributions were *not* using .2 release.
> Which is just the opposite you are trying to convince us. If they are
> not using official releases, why should they use unofficial branch?
>
> By the way, how would you look for a fix user reported to your
> distribution, as a distribution maintainer? The work-flow, as I
> understand it, is like this:
> a) user enters a bug report in your distro bugzilla
> b) maintainer gathers enough information to identify the issue
> c) check upstream bugzilla for a "duplicate" or possible fix
> d) decide on the change whether backport or indicate "will be fixed
>   in the next stable/unstable release"
>
> Note that I do not expect anyone looking into git branch for a
> particular fix, with a very good reason, they would rather check in
> bugzilla, which offers much better searching ability and contains enough
> information for possible bug matching, with compare of git commit. And
> the bugzilla should have enough information about the fix, like either a
> patch or a link to particular commit. The evolution-related products use
> to it that way.
This would certainly help distributions which want to stay with
Evolution 2.32 for
a while.. My only concern here is, while cherry-picking patches how
would we take
care of the translations and documentation ? Are we adhering to the freezes in
the gnome-2-32 branch (am not calling this a latest stable branch) ?

If the documentation and translations are taken care of, should the
freezes matter ?

- Chenthill.
>
> That's my opinion.
>        Bye,
>        Milan
>
> P.S.: as of today (or tomorrow, if you wish), the official stable
> release is 3.0.0.
>
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