Le dimanche 11 mars 2012 à 18:12 +0100, Florian Hubold a écrit : > Am 11.03.2012 17:58, schrieb Samuel Verschelde: > > Le dimanche 11 mars 2012 13:21:57, Michael Scherer a écrit : > >> Le samedi 10 mars 2012 à 10:26 +0100, Thierry Vignaud a écrit : > >>> Hi > >>> > >>> please let in xonotic-0.6.0 > >>> It's just a game that impacts nothing else. > >> Niet. > >> > >> That's bugfix or security fixes. > > Communication tip for the future : when such a policy change happens (this > > is > > a policy change, there were more exceptions in the past before package > > freeze, > > for leaf packages without weird deps and post/pre scripts and little > > impact), > > let's try to highlight it *before*. > > > > There was a communication effort to announce the freeze: I read freeze > > announce, was present at the last packager meeting. However it didn't struck > > me, it all looked like the usual end of release cycle, with their > > common-sense > > exceptions. > > > > A message such as "contrarily as what happened in the past" (this is the > > important part, highlight a *change*), "there will be no exception even for > > leaf non-critical packages, so that you all focus on bugfixes, as we know > > that > > otherwise you will not fix bugs and continue updating your packages". > > > > Best regards > > > > Samuel > > > I can only chime in with Stormi, in last packager meeting ennael > said that new packages would be allowed during the freeze, > but we should focus on bug fixes, which is comprehensible. > Also misc didn't say anything that new packages are disallowed.
As said earlier in the thread, that's not a new package, or it would have been able to go without asking anything. -- Michael Scherer
