UpstreamVersionFreeze delayed one week, to January 5th

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 11:27 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:18:00PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:59 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > 
> > > Due to vacation time being taken by various developers, the
> > > UpstreamVersionFreeze has been delayed by one week, to January 5th 2005.
> > > 
> > > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryReleaseSchedule
> > > 
> > What kind of plan do we want wrt. the merge-o-matic for this date?  Do
> > we want to just switch it off, or do we want to be able to poke me to
> > merge certain packages when requested?
> 
> I think it would be best to let it continue to run, only not file bugs, so
> that up-to-date output is always available if we need it.
> 
Which will require some magic, as mom gets its list of packages needing
merges from lorraine.  So elmo will have to take an axe to the bits of
lorraine that sync unchanged packages from Debian, but leave the bits
that generate the needs-merged list intact.

> Another question is whether we should have a different cutoff date for
> merges.  I think it makes sense to stop MOM a few days (or even a week?)
> earlier, and fix all of the open merge bugs, so that we're "caught up" when
> UVF happens.  Otherwise, we'll inevitably be lagging behind on merged
> packages, in some cases by a wide margin.
> 
Other than GNOME, aren't all upstream versions merges anyway?

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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