[Nix-dev] About 14.11 release

[Eelco Dolstra]

Hi,

On 22/10/14 17:35, Luca Bruno wrote:

> I appreciate the work being done by Domen and jumping in as release manager.
> I'd like to point out a few things however about the milestone issues. The
> release should be due for October 31th, and in my vision the date is near and
> the work put in the milestone is huge.

That's November 30th (we changed it to 14.11).

> #1684 - Define a standard way/location for non-standard(eg. html) package
> documentation - Basically we've been without docs for many packages until now.
> No work has being done for this issue, I think it will be a huge amount of work
> spent that could be allocated instead to make packages run better.

Well, there is a standard: share/doc/<package>.

> #739 - meta.license and meta.licenses standardisation - Same here, I think
> unless there's any work being done already, it can be delayed.
> 
> In my opinion, some other issues / pull requests are release critical:
> #4563 - Xfce mixer applet does not work - This seems like a regression from the
> previous stable release
> #4546 - NetworkManager fails to start due to dbus permission issue - Definitely
> a regression, not sure what the guy did there though

NetworkManager has never been a release-critical package IMHO. (Maybe it should
be, but then it will need automated tests at least.)

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