On 26.09.2008 15:13, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 02:30:01PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 01:50:55PM +0200, Jindrich Novy wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 11:11:09AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>>>>> I understand why rawhide should be frozen at some points, but
sometime
>>>>> there is a package one really wants, that is built in koji, but not
>>>>> available in rawhide because it is frozen. In my case, for example,
>>>>> rpm-build is broken but aleady fixed. So maybe it would be worth
having
>>>>> a special repo that would not be enabled, but that would allow to
have
>>>>> the latest builds during a beta freeze. In my opinion this repo
should
>>>>> also be used for Matt rebuilds since there are alot of already fixed
FTBS
>>>>> in his reports due to the freeze, which is a bit annoying.
>>>> Just mailed rel-eng guys if it's possible to move the new rpm to
beta.
>>> What email address did you use? I don't see it on the rel-eng list, nor
on
>>> the trac thing.
>> Thats most likely because rel-eng(a)fedoraproject.org is broken (it was
>> about a week ago) which I've already reported multiple times but with no
>> result sofar.
>
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2008-July/msg00004....
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/DevelFreezePolicy
Note: Normally I don't send mails that contain just a link, but it
seemed the right thing to do here, as the post before that was just a
link as well. ;-)
What I wanted to say with the link: Do you really expect that everybody
can think of each and every mail that is a few weeks old? And: we have a
wiki for a reasons, so why didn't rel-eng simply update the page while
the problem in question persist? Note that
finds a few other places that might need updating to prevent further
confusion. For example: