5 Dec
2011
5 Dec
'11
10:04 a.m.
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Timothy Pearson
<kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
Yes, now I understand why there will be no upgrade to 3.5.13.
But it seems it's not a comfortable situation for TDE, it's a circle:
without resource$ that leads to manpower, Trinity does progress very
slow, BUT if it progresses slow, large corporations or else that can
sponsor TDE development will run away.
May I gave a suggestion?
Why not make a release, 3.5.14, in early January, after the move to
Git and the rename thing is completed??
Even if it cures only a small bunch of bugs, it will be good, in many respects.
I don't know about others, but for myself, I can wait till January,
but I will not wait for six months to have some needed polishing done,
and will go away from TDE.
What you think?
On Sat, Dec 3,
2011 at 9:19 PM, Timothy Pearson
<kb9vqf(a)pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
At this point it is a combination of several factors:
1.) What you have mentioned already; that is, I am the defacto Debian
maintainer and don't have much free time. QuickBuild should allow an
interested maintainer to step up and start working on this part of the
project without much difficulty.
2.) The fixes simply aren't in GIT yet. The GIT transition is scheduled
to be finished by the end of December.
3.) During the GIT transition we are renaming a bunch of *KDE* strings to
*TDE*. This makes it extremely difficult to fire off a build from the
sources in GIT and actually have it work with the 3.5.13 builds. Instead,
someone would have to be willing to cherry pick the patches into the
Debian build files for 3.5.13, and remove any renaming that has already
been completed.
To summarize, in principle I would love to see SRUs for the main supported
distributions. In practice we need more manpower to see it happen. ;-)
Tim
Most likely you will have to wait for the next release. I assume you
have
bug reports in for the problems you are experiencing?
Tim
Hi Tim,
Although Trinity is great and is already very stable, you had
previously recognized that the TDE 3.5.13 release lacks some
polishing.
So, if some bugs and corrections are being done by the devs, why not
let the users get them now, instead of waiting 6 or more months?
The point here, is that with Debian, people are used to get new
upgrades, new versions, and more important, bug corrections via
apt-get, _all the time_.
So, maybe Trinity lacks here is a maintainer for the Debian packages,
so that they can been regularly upgraded, at least if not with new
features, with bug corretions and general polishing??
Thanks.