On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Kalev Lember <kalevlember@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> >> > Dunno what to do wrt the ongoing freeze and getting final 3.30 in F29 >> > Beta, I guess it may be too late for that. Any opinions from QA here? >> >> >> If 3.29 is not what GNOME folks had ever wanted to ship in the Beta, >> why are we hearing about it one week before go/nogo? The schedule has >> been published for what, 9 months? *shrug* > > GNOME has been releasing every 6 months on pretty much the same dates > for more than 10 years, and Fedora's schedule is modelled after GNOME's > for the purpose of getting things like GNOME, and other bi-yearly > time-based releases into Fedora. So Fedora knows well what schedule it > needs to adopt to get a .0 version of GNOME into the beta. > > With GNOME 3.30 having been released yesterday, on schedule, I'm not sure > how either the Fedora packagers or the upstream could have done things > differently. That is a very reasonable response but also doesn't actually answer the question. The schedules have been misaligned for months, so why only bring up that misalignment now and characterize it as if it's a big deal? There is an incongruency happening. It does present the appearance GNOME expects a persistent and on-going exception for beta freeze. Is that a fair characterization? If the schedules themselves do not align and will not ever align and it's important for .0 version of GNOME to be in the beta, I'd like to see some way of making that happen that does not involve the roll of the dice that is freeze exception as applied to something as complex and massive as *GNOME megaupdate* sounds and is and really only a few people could possibly properly assess, which isn't how FE works. Fedora folks have been testing 3.29 for weeks now. Fedora people haven't been testing 3.30 because it's not really available to test. So I think it's reasonable for a GNOME specific change to explicitly state a request and expectation for a beta freeze exception for every Fedora release so that a .0 lands in the beta, and see if FESCo thinks that's sane and accepts the change. But such as it is, the schedule is the schedule, warts and all, and freeze exception is for bugs. It's not for realigning misaligned schedules. > As a sidenote, this tone of discourse is frankly getting old. GNOME aren't > there to spite you. Never said that nor implied it. I asked two questions. There's tone in asking questions? -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
