[Pkg-xfce-devel] Xfce plans for the lenny cycle

[Frans Pop]

On Wednesday 18 April 2007 16:38, Simon Huggins wrote:
> There are always things that miss a release but had the freeze been
> pushed back to February say (two months before the release as per the
> original Oct -> Dec intention) then the January release of 4.4.0 may
> well have been deemed stable enough to ship.  Who knows.

OTOH, if the freeze had been pushed back, there would undoubtedly have 
been new uploads or packages accepted into testing that would have had 
serious issues and would have caused additional delays.

From what I have seen during both the Sarge and Etch releases, a lot of 
developers simply don't care about stabilization and upgrade paths, or at 
least not enough to do some dedicated testing.

Having said that, there was one significant unforeseen factor that delayed 
the release of Etch and thus extended the freeze, and that was a very 
difficult upstream kernel bug.
However, I am also convinced that the extra time that bought us has 
resulted in a significant quality improvement in the release as a whole 
as loads of issues in Etch were discovered and fixed in that period.

Note also that the Release Managers have been relatively liberal in what 
they would accept into Etch for a fairly long time during the freeze, 
although I totally agree with them that that does not extend to accepting 
new upstream versions of major desktop environments.

Cheers,
FJP
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