So are we skipping a gnome release?

[Peter Robinson]

>> > It would probably be best to run it by FESCo, I guess - I think
>> > technically you'd need to do that to get an update policy exception
>> > anyway. It would be good to handle it with care and relatively slowly,
>> > but just 'losing' an entire release would kinda suck.
>>
>> Another option would be to provide GNOME 3.12 in a COPR repository,
>> which would mean users have the choice to stick with 3.10 or upgrade to
>> 3.12.
>> The downside would be more maintenance work for GNOME packagers since
>> they would need to support 3.10 in Fedora proper and they would probably
>> also want to provide bug fixes and updates to 3.12 in the COPR
>> repository.
>>
>> Tadej
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> I'm against COPRing GNOME 3.12 due to the maintenance burden it will create,
> and the lack of QA stages (updates-testing) in COPR.
> If we COPR gnome 3.12, and then have to issue a minor update to it, that
> update will not undergo the usual fedora QA procedure of having to wait a
> week on testing or get 3 positive votes to  be delivered to users.

I suggest upping it to something more like 10 positive votes for such
a large bump as there's things like soname bumps in Evolution and a
bunch of other pretty big bumps (gobject-introspection etc) as part of
the release that could conceivably affect other parts of the distro.

Peter