Re: Another big complain for Gnome-0.14rc1

[Jens Finke <jens eknif de>]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Naba Kumar wrote:
>
> This is really wreid. Why didn't the Gnome release team inform the
> maintainers of gnome fifth toe packages about the release of
> Gnome-1.4rc1? They did circulated a mail about the release of beta2,
> but never did I find a prior notification of the release of 1.4rc1.
>
> This situation is really important as the developers might be working to
> produce a more stable, bug fixed version of the packages. At least for
> Anjuta IDE, it is true.
>
>
> We have been dipping our heads to produce a stable release of Anjuta IDE
> (0.1.4) and looo.. gnome-1.4rc1 is released.
> They were so good at giving deadlines and whole lot of other stuff
> taking big issues on compilation problems with gnome BETA2 release and
> they _FORGOT_ to give a prior notification of the rc1 release. Anyway,
> there are still lot of compilation problems with this release.
>
> The gnome release team should be responsible for clearing all the
> dependencies with the packages that are included with the gnome
> release, including gnome fifth toe packages, before they go for the
> actual release.

The same with the translation of these applications, as I mentioned a few
days ago. Nobody really seems to care about the "Fifth Toe" application
maintainers and there knowledge about releases/translation and so on.
Disappointing.

   Jens