Re: External Deps: update pwlib and opal version

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 10:10 +0200, Damien Sandras wrote:
> Le mardi 12 juin 2007 �3:58 +0200, guenther a �it :
> > On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 20:32 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:

> > > > No unstable releases means no smoketesting. GARNOME depends on tarball
> > > > releases, as do the official jhbuild modulesets. And I doubt much
> > > > distros would go down the ripping-from-SVN path... This is a recurring
> > > > topic, and we even have seen already approved, newly proposed tarballs
> > > > being dropped off the list, just because they failed to roll a tarball.
> > > 
> > > It looks like this is already being fixed.  See the thread starting at
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ekiga-devel-list/2007-June/msg00000.html.
> > >  :-)
> > 
> > Oh, awesome. :)  Of course, (with my GARNOME maintainer hat on) I'm
> > particularly pleased with David's first response [1]. Seems we'll see
> > unstable ekiga, opal and pwlib tarballs hitting f.g.o soon.
> 
> If you need more help to make things easier, feel free to ask :-)

Thanks. :)

> I must admit I am a bit confused about what I am supposed to do now...

Roll unstable Ekiga tarballs. (At least that's how I understand this.)

If the next stable Ekiga branch is targetted for the next stable GNOME
branch, we do need unstable tarballs being released during the unstable
GNOME cycle.

You don't have to strictly follow the GNOME release schedule [1],
pushing tarballs for each and every release -- however, unstable
releases are necessary. Certainly for Ekiga, which is part of the
desktop suite. Likely for opal and pwlib, too. (Which you are likely to
roll anyway, according to your previous comments about Ekiga trunk
depending on opal/pwlib trunk.) Not sure how strict the rules are for
external deps, though. Also, it depends on the targeted versions for
inclusion in 2.20.

As for when to release unstable tarballs: At any time you feel necessary
or worthwhile. However, a good time for releases is the Monday [1] right
before the next unstable GNOME release -- which, unfortunately, would
have been yesterday...


HTH. Is that what you are wondering about? Or did I just not get your
question? ;)

  guenther  (who got a real name "Karsten Br�elmann", too...)


[1] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen

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