A few days ago we had a conference call with a bunch of folks involved in the release process of Fedora, in order to discuss the upcoming release of Fedora 9, and I was asked to represent the FLP.
I mentioned one of the FLP "requirements" is to have packages repackaged after the translation deadline, which is on 7/4. Since the freeze date (date where packages are taken by RelEng) is 8/4, maintainers have only 24h to repackage. Some of them may do it in this short window and some others might not.
From what I understand, moving the feature freeze later is no option
for now. In order to make sure packages F9 has as many translations as possible, we might want to move the deadline some days earlier, say from 7/4 to 3/4 or even a week earlier on 31/3. This means we'll have one week less to submit our translations, but a higher possibility for repackaging by the developers.
The earlier we decide what we want to do, the earlier we can start letting people know about the date to repackage.
In other news, I'm still tied up with my job with almost no time for our stuff.
-d
Le Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:18:58 +0200, "Dimitris Glezos" dimitris@glezos.com a écrit :
A few days ago we had a conference call with a bunch of folks involved in the release process of Fedora, in order to discuss the upcoming release of Fedora 9, and I was asked to represent the FLP.
I mentioned one of the FLP "requirements" is to have packages repackaged after the translation deadline, which is on 7/4. Since the freeze date (date where packages are taken by RelEng) is 8/4, maintainers have only 24h to repackage. Some of them may do it in this short window and some others might not.
From what I understand, moving the feature freeze later is no option
for now. In order to make sure packages F9 has as many translations as possible, we might want to move the deadline some days earlier, say from 7/4 to 3/4 or even a week earlier on 31/3. This means we'll have one week less to submit our translations, but a higher possibility for repackaging by the developers.
The earlier we decide what we want to do, the earlier we can start letting people know about the date to repackage.
In other news, I'm still tied up with my job with almost no time for our stuff.
-d
From my point of view, this is a bad news. Should we make a kind of compromise ? Being informed of this lately should be in our favour I think.
Thomas
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