Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-04 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 4 de juny de 2012, a les 06:31:56, Martin Gräßlin va escriure: > On Monday 04 June 2012 01:26:01 Kevin Kofler wrote: > > On Monday 04 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > It's not about hurting or not (that it does, see how Martin got confused > > > and probably lost time wonderin

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-04 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Diumenge, 3 de juny de 2012, a les 23:54:30, Scott Kitterman va escriure: > On Monday, June 04, 2012 01:20:33 AM Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > El Dilluns, 4 de juny de 2012, a les 00:51:30, Kevin Kofler va escriure: > > > On Monday 04 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > > I know building pa

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-04 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 4 de juny de 2012, a les 01:26:01, Kevin Kofler va escriure: > On Monday 04 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > It's not about hurting or not (that it does, see how Martin got confused > > and probably lost time wondering how something like that could be > > happening). > > Oh, an

Re: Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-04 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 04 June 2012 18:34:40 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote: > This issue is even a bigger problem if your fellow developers compile your > code from scratch and then file a bug by version "Compiled from sources". > Should happen much more often, no? :) quite the opposite. Most users who actuall

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-04 Thread Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
Am Montag, 4. Juni 2012, 18:01:29 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > On Monday 04 June 2012 15:18:11 Kevin Kofler wrote: > > On Monday 04 June 2012, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > > That means that people report bugs against different incarnations of the > > > same packages, which makes bugs hard to find -- it

Re: Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-04 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 04 June 2012 15:18:11 Kevin Kofler wrote: > On Monday 04 June 2012, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > That means that people report bugs against different incarnations of the > > same packages, which makes bugs hard to find -- it doesn't work as we > > can't verify the exact state of the code a

Re: Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-04 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 04 June 2012 10:52:13 you wrote: > On Sunday, June 03, 2012 20:46:56 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > I don't want to blame anyone (that's why I did not name the distros). > > Well, it's a specific distro pushing out packages too early to its users > (and in this case, a group that doesn't under

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-04 Thread Kevin Kofler
On Monday 04 June 2012, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > That means that people report bugs against different incarnations of the > same packages, which makes bugs hard to find -- it doesn't work as we > can't verify the exact state of the code a bug is filed against. That almost never makes a difference

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-04 Thread Jonathan Riddell
To get some more info for this discussion I asked about Gnome They put tars on their public ftp server on the Monday and release on the Wednesday 09:49 < Riddell> didrocks: doesn't that lead to lots of comments on news sites and user forums "gnome 3.2 is released, why don't I have packages yet

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-04 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Sunday, June 03, 2012 20:46:56 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > I don't want to blame anyone (that's why I did not name the distros). Well, it's a specific distro pushing out packages too early to its users (and in this case, a group that doesn't understand that these are not 4.8.80 packages until we

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-04 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, June 04, 2012 01:26:01 Kevin Kofler wrote: > On Monday 04 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > It's not about hurting or not (that it does, see how Martin got confused > > and probably lost time wondering how something like that could be > > happening). > > Oh, and what Martin actua

Re: Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Monday 04 June 2012 01:26:01 Kevin Kofler wrote: > On Monday 04 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > It's not about hurting or not (that it does, see how Martin got confused > > and probably lost time wondering how something like that could be > > happening). > > Oh, and what Martin actuall

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, June 04, 2012 01:20:33 AM Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El Dilluns, 4 de juny de 2012, a les 00:51:30, Kevin Kofler va escriure: > > On Monday 04 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > I know building packages take time, that's why we give you early access, > > > you should build the pac

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
On Monday 04 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > It's not about hurting or not (that it does, see how Martin got confused > and probably lost time wondering how something like that could be > happening). Oh, and what Martin actually got confused by is a failure of processes on the KDE end: The

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 4 de juny de 2012, a les 00:51:30, Kevin Kofler va escriure: > On Monday 04 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > I know building packages take time, that's why we give you early access, > > you should build the packages but you should not publish them before they > > are official. >

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Tom Albers
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - > I will also remind you that KDE is as popular as it is today ONLY > because it > is widely packaged in distributions. Without packaging, KDE's > userbase would > be only an extremely tiny fraction of what it is now. I can also > point you to > several projects w

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
On Monday 04 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > I know building packages take time, that's why we give you early access, > you should build the packages but you should not publish them before they > are official. > > If your packaging system does not support that maybe you need to refine > your

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Dilluns, 4 de juny de 2012, a les 00:26:29, Kevin Kofler va escriure: > On Sunday 03 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > I know, and that's an abuse of the privilege we give them having the > > packages before the release. > > How does it hurt to have unreleased packages in an unreleased Fe

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
On Sunday 03 June 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > I know, and that's an abuse of the privilege we give them having the > packages before the release. How does it hurt to have unreleased packages in an unreleased Fedora? We are NOT pushing packages of a new release to Fedora releases (not even th

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
On Sunday 03 June 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > So I would like to know, what's the reason why distros ship the packages > too early Because building packages in Rawhide is not instant. We are still building 4.8.80 packages. But of course the core parts (including kde-workspace) are already buil

Re: Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Jun 3, 2012 8:47 PM, "Martin Gräßlin" wrote: > I don't want to blame anyone (that's why I did not name the distros). I want > to know what we can do that versions which should not go to the users end up > on the users's system. And somehow I think it's also in the interest of the > distribution

Re: Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Sunday 03 June 2012 20:34:55 Andrea Scarpino wrote: > Well...In Arch I released the packages some hour before Tom's thread about > calling off beta1. You guys decided to delay it only, so I kept the > packages in the unstable repo to let our devs test them, but I didn't > announce them. > I gue

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Jun 3, 2012 8:40 PM, "Albert Astals Cid" wrote: > Come on, you put your packages available before the official tar files are > available in the ftp and you're saying you did nothing wrong? That repo is empty for 9 months per year. ___ release-team ma

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Albert Astals Cid
El Diumenge, 3 de juny de 2012, a les 20:34:55, Andrea Scarpino va escriure: > On Jun 3, 2012 8:08 PM, "Martin Gräßlin" wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > this weekend KWin received bug reports against 4.8.80 from distro packages > > ([1], [2]). This quite surprised me as beta should not be out before >

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Tom Albers
- Oorspronkelijk bericht - > Well...In Arch I released the packages some hour before Tom's thread > about calling off beta1. Please try not to confuse me with Albert. Best, Tom Albers KDE Sysadmin ___ release-team mailing list release-team@kde.

Re: Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On Jun 3, 2012 8:08 PM, "Martin Gräßlin" wrote: > > Hi all, > > this weekend KWin received bug reports against 4.8.80 from distro packages > ([1], [2]). This quite surprised me as beta should not be out before Monday. > > Now I concider this as an issue if users can report bugs for a version we do

Why are 4.8.80 packages already out in the wild?

2012-06-03 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Hi all, this weekend KWin received bug reports against 4.8.80 from distro packages ([1], [2]). This quite surprised me as beta should not be out before Monday. Now I concider this as an issue if users can report bugs for a version we do not yet expect. E.g. in KWin I had not yet created the ver