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2009/12/31 Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o>: |
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> 30 days isn't a long time. How about filing bugs against anything that |
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> currently uses qt3 right away, so that maintainers have an extra three weeks |
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> to resolve these issues? Granted, one would hope they've been paying |
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> attention. |
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We've already announced that 5 months ago and asked for any issues to |
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be brought to our attention. If things haven't improved by now, it is |
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doubtful they will with a few months extra time. Our current timeline |
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gives maintainers another seven weeks to resolve issues, before |
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x11-libs/qt:3 will be package.masked. |
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> Usually the approach in these situations is to have a big tracker bug for |
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> qt3 removal and a million blocker bugs against individual packages. |
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There is a tracker bug, I should have mentioned it in the original mail: |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283429 |
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Please file bugs blocking the tracker for any package you think is |
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important and doesn't have a Qt4 version or replacement yet. If there |
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is a Qt4 version, but not yet stable, then stable requests should be |
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filed, which also block the tracker. The Qt team will also go through |
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the tree and file bugs for all remaining packages within the next |
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couple of weeks. |
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> Plus, you might decide that one or two of the blockers really are |
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> critical, and decide to work with those maintainers more closely or escalate |
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> the issue. |
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Sure. As I said in the original mail: "We are dedicated to do anything |
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we reasonably can to make sure that Qt4 versions or equivalents of the |
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remaining Qt3 packages in the portage tree are available." I believe |
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we can work things out in the next seven weeks, and otherwise we could |
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reconsider the timeline. But we need short-term goals, otherwise it |
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will take forever to get things done. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben de Groot |
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Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) |
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