[Sugar-devel] Sugar 0.88 packages

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 18:47, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> El Wed, 12-05-2010 a las 14:24 -0300, Daniel Drake escribió:
>> On 11 May 2010 20:23, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>> > Would you like me to go on and apply any relevant patches also to the
>> > devel and F-13 branches in CVS? Let me know if you'd rather want me to
>> > run each individual patch through you instead of committing them
>> > directly. Either way is equally fast and easy on my side.
>>
>> Can't you do it properly by committing the patches and releasing new tarballs?
>> No need to lock up the fixes.
>
> I'm posting all my patches to sugar-devel@, attaching them to tickets
> and ping individual people on IRC.
>
> It's taking a lot of time because we have few active maintainers with
> privileges to ack patches. Regarding releasing official tarballs, the
> release manager position is currently vacant so don't expect them
> anytime soon.

And btw, I'm really puzzled at this. Maybe you need to search our wiki
for "release manager" and check what it actually does?

Regards,

Tomeu

> While we're working to fix our review process, it makes sense for
> downstream projects on a tight schedule to apply obvious bugfix patches
> directly to their packages.
>
> Ideally, some of the existing contributors would step up and become
> maintainers of specific modules or releases. I'm available to maintain
> the 0.88 branch unless someone else wants to and I offered to become a
> review peer for all the sugar-* modules.
>
> BTW: I did some testing yesterday with F11-XO1-0.88 and results are very
> encouraging. I'm seeing some issues related to font-size and window
> borders. We need to figure out why these things work well in
> sugar-emulator in 1200x900 and not on the XO-1. I tried upgrading
> Metacity, but it did not seem to help.
>
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