2009/12/31 Richard Freeman <[email protected]>: > 30 days isn't a long time. How about filing bugs against anything that > currently uses qt3 right away, so that maintainers have an extra three weeks > to resolve these issues? Granted, one would hope they've been paying > attention.
We've already announced that 5 months ago and asked for any issues to be brought to our attention. If things haven't improved by now, it is doubtful they will with a few months extra time. Our current timeline gives maintainers another seven weeks to resolve issues, before x11-libs/qt:3 will be package.masked. > Usually the approach in these situations is to have a big tracker bug for > qt3 removal and a million blocker bugs against individual packages. There is a tracker bug, I should have mentioned it in the original mail: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283429 Please file bugs blocking the tracker for any package you think is important and doesn't have a Qt4 version or replacement yet. If there is a Qt4 version, but not yet stable, then stable requests should be filed, which also block the tracker. The Qt team will also go through the tree and file bugs for all remaining packages within the next couple of weeks. > Plus, you might decide that one or two of the blockers really are > critical, and decide to work with those maintainers more closely or escalate > the issue. Sure. As I said in the original mail: "We are dedicated to do anything we reasonably can to make sure that Qt4 versions or equivalents of the remaining Qt3 packages in the portage tree are available." I believe we can work things out in the next seven weeks, and otherwise we could reconsider the timeline. But we need short-term goals, otherwise it will take forever to get things done. Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) ______________________________________________________
