Calling off Beta1

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dimarts, 29 de maig de 2012, a les 15:10:18, Scott Kitterman va escriure:
> On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 07:55:02 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El Dimarts, 29 de maig de 2012, a les 13:45:34, Scott Kitterman va 
escriure:
> > > Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > > >El Dimarts, 29 de maig de 2012, a les 19:31:37, Kevin Kofler va
> > > >
> > > >escriure:
> > > >> On Tuesday 29 May 2012, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > >> > Blame the soprano developers and the nepomuk developers for not
> > > >
> > > >respecting
> > > >
> > > >> > the dependency freeze.
> > > >> 
> > > >> Oh by the way, this is not the first time a prerelease of the KDE SC
> > > >
> > > >depends
> > > >
> > >> on a git snapshot of Soprano, either (sadly). So it's not so big a
> > >> catastrophe to warrant canceling the entire release!
> > >> 
> > > >I'm the release dude now, I've decided I don't want to release tarballs
> > > >that
> > > >depend on something that does not exist.
> > > >
> > > >You can volunteer if you don't like how I'm doing the work and let the
> > > >rest of
> > > >the release team decide who they want doing the job.
> > > 
> > > Thank you for the team oriented approach to your work on KDE. I find it
> > > very motivational.
> > 
> > Please do not confuse team work with democracy. I like team work, I do
> > take
> > suggestions, but at the end each person in a team has a given role and a
> > given attributions for that role, the release dude does the releases.
> 
> I'm not.  You've known about this since Saturday.  AFAIK didn't consult
> packagers on impacts.  Made a late announcement (if you were going to do
> this, waiting three days did't help).  

I was waiting to see if someone would react to my emails and create a soprano 
release. Unfortunately that did not happen.

Cheers,
  Albert

> Then you give a very pointed
> response to anyone who questions your decisions.
> 
> Fine.  You're the release dude, so decide, but there are ways to deal with
> it that are much less abrasive than this.  I read your mail on Saturday and
> thought it meant "go package the soprano snapshot - you'll need it".  It
> never even occurred to me that the release would be canceled.
> 
> > And as release dude I've decided I don't want to release Beta 1 depending
> > on unreleased packages.
> > 
> > Being the release dude is something i did not want to do, but we had to
> > make a release and noone was there to do them.
> > 
> > Cancelling the Beta 1 is something i did not want to do, but I do
> > sincerely
> > think that releasing depending on unexsisting stuff is a bad idea.
> 
> Fine, but if you're going to deviate substantially from past practice, I
> think it's reasonable to expect some warning.
> 
> Scott K
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