> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 14:49, Marcello Anni <marcello.a...@alice.it> wrote: > > no (as i explain below), the communication is ok, is the kindness and the > > explanation of Anne that disappointed me. > > Note to self for next time: take a photo of ennael handing a huge sign > "It's freeze time!" with a large smile + a link to a tutorial that > explains what that means for everyone - and put it in a corner of all > mageia.org web sites.
good idea : ) > > > but in fact i know that we are in freeze, but i see also that some packages > > (e.g. mageiaonline) continue to be improved for release, > > Not improved, but fixed. Because this one is release critical - this > has nothing to do with a cosmectic change. ok, it's not release critical but it's not neither a cosmetic change, as users are suggested to remove those packages and in the 99% of the cases it brings huge issues... and we should also remember that a person that uses linux is curious and wants the best for his system, if he reads "these packages are now unuseful (and he doesn't come from mandriva)" he probably (50%?) will try the comand > > > but do you consider a change in a language string as a difficult change? i don't > > have technical skills but i don't think so... > > No, but being in freeze disregards totally that a change is trivial > (changing the string) or not (fixing the behaviour). It's not a > release critical bug, so it just does not get on the table past the > freeze date. And even less (because there are exceptions) when the > release time is approaching. andré blais proposed a similar solution on 2011-04-29, it's not a last-day proposal: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=920#c6 > > Romain > hope it will be fixed in some updates for mageia 1 release. cheers, Marcello