[Pkg-freeciv-devel] Greetings from Freeciv upstream

[Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)]

Hi Marko

On 14/02/11 09:46 AM, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> I also wonder if there should be discussion about freeciv release dates
> between upstream and packagers. Sometimes it could make sense to make
> freeciv release a bit earlier if that would mean meeting deadline for
> release of some distribution. Currently we have no idea of such deadlines.
> Could you inform me when at latest you need freeciv releases so you could
> still get it in to next release of your distribution?

Ubuntu's feature freeze is on February 24[1], that's pretty much the
deadline, although there is a very good process for feature freeze
exceptions[2].

Freeciv is currently[3] just a synced[4] package from Debian, so it's
probably best to just keep Debian up to date and then synchronise in Ubuntu.

I'm a big freeciv fan and signed up for the pkg-freeciv-devel mailing
list, if there's something I can do to help feel free to give me a poke,
I can't do anything about the gtk migration though :)

-Jonathan

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess
[3]
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=freeciv&searchon=names&suite=natty&section=all
[4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess