On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 10:19 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:35 -0500, Warren Togami wrote: > > If you are involved in the development of Fedora Core as a packager, > > here is information that will be relevant to you. > > > > FC5test1 devel freeze now November 14th > > ======================================= > > Rawhide is undergoing a large amount of churn as we are preparing for > > the switch from monolithic to modular X. Modular X is one of the larger > > and more important changes of FC5, meaning we need extensive test > > exposure. For this reason the test1 devel freeze has been postponed > > until November 14th. > > Warren, > > While I know that the move to modular X is important, there's some other > nagging issues in rawhide that are going to drive the list mad if they > aren't addressed before test1 is released. > > The most obvious of these (IMHO) is devices not appearing on desktop or > appearing to be mounted from Computer (et al) when they are indeed > mounted. This problem is fixed in Hal cvs. We are working on a timetable for a 0.5.5 release, that will include these changes. Some of the accompanying problems, like the duplicating cdrom icon, are bugs in gnome-vfs. I have submitted patches but I have no idea when and if they will be pulled into a new gnome-vfs release. > > I also suspect that we're going to hear a lot from people with certain > Intel PCI chipsets who will suddenly find that they HDD/DVD performance > sucks in rawhide. I know that work is being done on this in the kernel, > but that at this stage nothing concrete (that I'm aware of) has been > done. > > This last I don't expect to be fixed, but if the one above could be > addressed before test1 then this should really alleviate rampant "my > drive isn't appearing on the desktop" and "my drive isn't showing as > mounted in Computer" emails from eager testers who don't bother to read > the list (and subsequent rude "read the archive" emails too.) ;-] > > > Rodd > > -- > "It's a fine line between denial and faith. > It's much better on my side" > Jon -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
