[Mageia-dev] [Freeze] please let in xonotic
Samuel Verschelde
stormi at laposte.net
Fri Mar 16 08:57:45 CET 2012
Le jeudi 15 mars 2012 20:35:08, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> Op donderdag 15 maart 2012 18:35:04 schreef Juan Luis Baptiste:
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Bertaux Xavier <bertauxx at yahoo.fr>
wrote:
> > >> If this is the case, then I say that xonotic should be allowed to be
> > >> updated.
> > >
> > > I'm not about to be okay with that, a version Freeze only accepts
> > > updates on bug fixes and security warnings, so RC to Release is OK but
> > > not to revision's change, otherwise that would mean that if fate
> > > xonotic in version 0.7 just before the Release we should built.
> > > To me this should be pushed Backport, to limit the update after Release
> >
> > Backports are for new versions, not bug fixes. In this case even as
> > this is a new version, the use of an older version of the game client
> > with a new game server version could bring issues to users, so that
> > makes this release more of a "bug fix release", because we are trying
> > to avoid any possible problem to our users, not because we want to
> > have the latest version of the game. If we leave the current version
> > and then a user reports a problem while playing the game, the 0.6 or
> > 0.7 or whatever version is available at the time would be pushed as an
> > update, not as a backport.
>
> well, the version policy is for updates.
>
> my point here is that we should maybe equalize & simplify our policys by
> having the same kind of "exceptions" in both policies.
>
It's already the case. If you re-read Ennael's mail about version freeze, it
says exactly that about exceptions.
Samuel
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