Re: 3.27.90 tarball deadline extended

2018-02-09 Thread mcatanzaro
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 8:36 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote: It was clear from the earlier mails that the release-team would be using BuildStream, it really wasn't explicit that the developers and maintainers of individual modules were also being asked that. To be clear, we're

Re: 3.27.90 tarball deadline extended

2018-02-09 Thread mcatanzaro
On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 9:14 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: Whatever maintainers use to build release tarballs is fine — as long as you ensure that you're always keeping the build of the whole GNOME set of modules running. Yes, this! Milan, feel free to do the .91 release

Re: 3.27.90 tarball deadline extended

2018-02-09 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On 9 February 2018 at 14:36, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Thu, 2018-02-08 at 13:57 -0600, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: >> Hi developers, >> >> We're getting closer, but we're not yet at a point where we can >> recommend that you try generating release tarballs with BuildStream and

Re: 3.27.90 tarball deadline extended

2018-02-09 Thread Bastien Nocera
On Thu, 2018-02-08 at 13:57 -0600, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > Hi developers, > > We're getting closer, but we're not yet at a point where we can > recommend that you try generating release tarballs with BuildStream and > expect it to work. So I have to reluctantly recommend that you use >

Re: 3.27.90 tarball deadline extended

2018-02-09 Thread Milan Crha
On Thu, 2018-02-08 at 13:57 -0600, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: > Due to this delay, we will skip the 3.27.91 release altogether, so > the next tarball deadline will be 3.27.92, on March 5. Perhaps by > then we will be able to recommend using BuildStream for tarball > generation. Hi, is it

Re: 3.27.90 tarball deadline extended

2018-02-08 Thread mcatanzaro
Hi developers, We're getting closer, but we're not yet at a point where we can recommend that you try generating release tarballs with BuildStream and expect it to work. So I have to reluctantly recommend that you use JHBuild to generate your 3.27.90 release tarballs, if your module has

Re: 3.27.90 tarball deadline extended

2018-02-05 Thread mcatanzaro
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:59 AM, mcatanz...@gnome.org wrote: The release team is still learning how to get by in a BuildStream world. It turns out that nobody who is currently available knows how to generate release tarballs using BuildStream. Hi developers, An update on this. With some help

3.27.90 tarball deadline extended

2018-02-05 Thread mcatanzaro
Hi developers, TL;DR: the 3.27.90 tarball deadline is extended until next Monday The release team is still learning how to get by in a BuildStream world. It turns out that nobody who is currently available knows how to generate release tarballs using BuildStream. Many developers, notably