Re: Gnome 2.12.1 released!

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Kjartan Maraas wrote:

> tor, 06,.10.2005 kl. 10.53 +0100, skrev Bill Haneman:
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> > (dist trimmed)
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> >    
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> > > Elijah:
> > >
> > > I made a new release of gnome-mag (0.12.2) for GNOME 2.12.1 with an 
> > > important bugfix. Looks like I thought Tuesday was Monday, sorry about 
> > > that.  Is there any way we can pull this into 2.12.1 now?
> > >      
> > Unless you feel differently, I retract this suggestion.  It doesn't seem 
> > to me like a good idea to set precedent of changing/respinning a release 
> > for something that's not a real "stopper".
> >
> >    
> We talked about this briefly, and I agree with Elijah that we have to be
> adamant when it comes to the deadlines or maintainers will never learn
> to make tarballs in time for the release. I've learnt since none of my
> modules got released in time for 2.12.1 :-)
>  
Yes, I agree.  That's why I 'retracted' the suggestion.

Bill

> I know I've been a bit less stringent in the past since I've done the
> stable releases more or less when I've had time myself, but if we are to
> be able to spread the load of making a release and get the community to
> test the "final" release we have to draw the line at some point.
>
>  
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> > 2.12.2 will have to do.  I hate these off-by-one errors ;-)
> >
> >    
> It's not that far off and distros can always pick up the tarballs of any
> single modules that have important fixes in them.
>
> Cheers
> Kjartan
>
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