Op zaterdag 03 maart 2012 10:36:55 schreef Thomas Backlund: > 03.03.2012 11:24, Michael Scherer skrev: > > Le vendredi 02 mars 2012 à 20:53 +0100, Maarten Vanraes a écrit : > >> Op vrijdag 02 maart 2012 20:16:11 schreef Thomas Backlund: > >>> 02.03.2012 21:08, Dimitri Jakov skrev: > >>>> Besides... GNOME 3.4 is going to be released on March 28 - does that > >>> > >>> Yes we know... > >>> > >>>> mean that we won't be able to ship it with Mageia 2? > >>> > >>> Nope, we have that as an exception to the freeze... > >>> (that's why we already run 3.3.x) > >>> > >>> we will have Gnome 3.4.x and KDE 4.8.x in Mageia 2 > >> > >> also, I hope mariadb-5.5.x final (right now we have 5.5.20 which is the > >> alpha version; beta will come quite soon, then the rc and finals follow > >> pretty fast and these only contain bugfixes) > > > > Next time, maybe waiting for the beta would be better, cauldron is not > > mean to be a playground for testing upstream softwares when we do not > > have a strong assurance that the stable will end i the stable release. > > Actually in this case it is ok, since we've been tracking upstream 5.5.x > branch with the target for 5.5.x final, so "alpha" in this case > only means fully synced with mysql 5.5 and afaik all intended mariadb > patches merged...
yes, and so far that haven't been any complaints yet, waiting for mikala, since he's the most likely person to have issues about it. > They are only a bit late :/ yes :-( allthough according to upstream, there seems to be a good chance it will be released as final quite quickly > > If everybody start to do that, we spend more time on upgrading to > > version that should have been stable than fixing others bugs. > > > > And if upstream could also try to be a little bit less original and > > follow some easy to grasp convetion about version number. yes, it seems they will upgrade the version to +1 for beta and so forth. but they consider the major versions 5.5 the real version. but still, took me a while to figure it out...
