Re: Bring Matthias on r-t?

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

I would say to bring him on.  The only question is does he to be part of
the team.

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 11:02 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Okay, I mentioned this earlier[1], but with Jeff giving two
> possibilities of either inviting Matthias to join the release team or
> delegating release-checking tools[2] to him, I wasn't sure which made
> more sense.  I think inviting him on makes more sense now.  Anyone
> object to me inviting him to join the release team?
> 
> Elijah
> 
> [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2006-August/msg00043.html
> [2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2006-August/msg00044.html
> 
> 
> On 9/11/06, Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com> wrote:
> > The topic came up earlier, and I think there was a general consensus
> > that it is a good idea to freeze the versions of external dependencies,
> > and use tarball modules for them in the gnome-2.18 moduleset in jhbuild.
> >
> > I see that we already do that for hal, with the hal-0-5-7 id.
> > fontconfig 2.4.0 has just been released, so I'd propose that we do the
> > same for fontconfig now, and then follow with dbus, as soon as 1.0 is
> > released (which should be soon now).
> >
> > There is a slight problem with doing this version freezing by changing
> > the ids, since it messes up dependencies (unless we add some from of
> > "provides" to jhbuild modules) - e.g. the hal-0-5-7 modules requires
> > "dbus", so if we freeze dbus as "dbus-1-0", the "dbus" dependency will
> > not be satisfied by it.
> >
> > Matthias
> >
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