On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Max Kanat-Alexander<[email protected]> wrote: > Sandy Armstrong wrote: >> I think this would be more convenient *after* the 2.28 release, as a >> GNOME maintainer who does most of his work on weekends. But if the >> decision has already been made to do this before 2.28, then that's a >> good weekend, I guess, since it's not right before a release. >> >> If the developer/maintainer point of view is not part of this >> discussion, than apologies for bringing this up in the wrong place. > > Hey Sandy. I'm perfectly happy to hear the developer/maintainer point > of view. I was looking for the sysadmin viewpoint first, but we would of > course be eventually presenting this to the development community anyhow. > > I think it might actually be *good* to do this upgrade before the > release happens, as I imagine Bugzilla activity increases greatly right > before and immediately after a release, and the current Bugzilla server > is pretty severely slow when it's loaded. That is, you'd get a snappier > Bugzilla (in addition to the various new features of Bugzilla 3.4) to > help out before and after the release.
Well that will be a very welcome change. :-) I am definitely looking forward to the upgrade. > Also, per the contract that I'm working under, and also an agreement > that we got signed by various major players before the work completed, > the upgrade is scheduled to happen some time in August, and the only > feasible August weekend seems to be the 15-16. (There's no hard code > freeze or tarballs due the Monday after.) Also, I'm "on the hook" for > you guys for 30 days after the upgrade is complete, to fix bugs (so > you'll see any issues fixed rapidly) and I won't have that time in my > schedule in September or October. With that limitation in mind, it really seems best to do this sooner rather than later. Thanks for all the info! Sandy _______________________________________________ gnome-infrastructure mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-infrastructure
