On Nov 3, 2004, at 5:58 AM, D. Höhn wrote:
I think that this is the way to go. However, to handle this gracefully
and to make sure that the users are notified of what is going on I would
like to porpose the following steps.
a) Notify the common user base that we are planning to make significant
technical changes
b) Announce that on the homepage and determine a time frame (maybe 1 or
2 days)
c) Freeze the CVS for that time. Only allow updates to existing packages
(so that the depends can be declared) do not accept updates to packages
that are version specific (like new upstream version), do not accept new
packages.
d) Submit the new gettext and ncruses
e) Have a 48 hours waiting period
f) Thaw the tree
g) Announce that we are done and that persisting issues should be reported.
This is a good procedure, but it should be applied at a much later stage. Right now, we are going to add the new ncurses and gettext packages, which will coexist peacefully with the old ones. At some later date, we would like to remove the old ones. It's at the time of removal that we'll need to take great care with the upgrade, as you suggest.
-- Dave
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