Sorry for the slow response... On 9/14/05, Danilo Šegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Today at 7:42, Elijah Newren wrote: > > > The specific solutions I'm proposing are: > > > > - Tarballs are due by 23:59 UTC on the Monday specified > > Can we also add a general guideline as to *earliest* when tarballs > should be rolled out? I know we can't be too strict on this one > (every now and then there will be a couple of exceptions; for some we > will be using very old tarballs such as previous Gnome releases), but > I believe documentation and translation projects would benefit from > having exact date until they can work on something while being sure > that their work will end up in the release. <snip> > Asking for a simple "notify gnome-i18n, gnome-doc-list if you are > releasing early" (just like Rich did with gcalctool in this round) > would be a great help as well.
I like the general idea of this, but I'm worried about adding too many strict deadlines all at once. Also, we may find the too-early-to-release time needs to be adjusted (e.g. 3 days instead of 2 or whatever) after we've tried it out. And, well...we currently don't have a way of flagging release-too-early modules, just release-too-late ones. ;-) How about we make it a non-binding guideline[1] for 2.14 (which appears at the end of the release-dates page as a reminder), and then make it a little more strict for the next cycle after we've tried it out and have a better idea what the right timing is (and have some scripts and stuff to assist with it)? Sound reasonable? Thanks, Elijah [1] Basically meaning that we can still contact module authors that don't follow it and ask them nicely if they'll be able to notify the right people and/or release within the right window in the future. This is different from the strict release-too-late deadline where modules that miss it can be appear on public didn't-make-the-deadline-and-were-not-included-in-the-specific-release list.
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