On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 11:44 PM Yavor Doganov <ya...@gnu.org> wrote: > > В Tue, 01 Jan 2019 23:28:35 +0000, Ivan Vučica написа: > > On Tue, Jan 1, 2019 at 9:43 PM Yavor Doganov <ya...@gnu.org> wrote: > >> I believe it's too late for that. > >> > > I could cut a release this weekend, and then we do another one by the > > end of the month. > > It is probably doable, but there should be a combintation of factors in > our favor to make it work. We need to get the new release in experimental > (ideally built on all release architectures) before 11th so that I file a > transition bug before the deadline [1].
I realized I'm not sure what transition means. Out of curiosity, is it the transition from e.g. libgnustep-gui0.26 to libgnustep-gui0.27? That is, is the problem creation of a new binary package? > > So, if you release on Sat/Sun > and we prepare the package almost immediately, we'll have to wait for a > sponsor to do the upload and then for ftpmasters to process it as it has > to pass through the NEW queue. This is the biggest hurdle; sometimes it > takes a few days but it may take months. I think I have a few DDs I might be able to bother for sponsorship if we agree on a release. I suppose ftpmasters will be a hard block at that point. In the meantime, if maintainers could help me out by updating the non-autogenerated news entries and such, that'd help a lot. Crawling through the ChangeLogs and VCS logs takes a lot of the time when cutting a release I could better spend wrestling with git tagging, GPG signing and uploading to multiple locations. > > We are doing a Pantomime > transition right now despite the fact that 1.3.0 was released long time > ago; it spent months in the NEW queue and then I had to wait a further > month to verify that it builds on mipsen (slowest buildds always lagging). > > [1] Assuming that the Debian Release Team will process these bugs on the > basis that they're filed before the deadline; they may well postpone > these transitions after the buster release. *sigh* I love bureaucracy. It's really hard for a non-DD to be aware of these deadlines. It's even more fun to think about all the other distributions and OSes that I'm not even trying to track. _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev