Volunteers needed for maintenance/stable gnome-3-4 branch

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Evolution folks,


Debian’s next stable release codenamed Wheezy is going to ship GNOME 3.4
with Evolution 3.4.3 (currently) and therefore that will be used for
more than two years by its users.

Matthew and Milan have expressed several times [1][2] that after
Evolution 3.4.4 no further 3.4.x release is planed. Unfortunately
already several bugs have been found in 3.4.4 warranting a 3.4.5
release.

If I remember correctly, the developers would not oppose a maintenance
branch, if others would volunteer to maintain it. (Unfortunately I
cannot find the URL in the GNOME Bugzilla or evolution-list.

Seeing Alexandre Rostovtsev committed a patch to branch gnome-3-4, I was
wondering if other distribution folks – especially maintainers – could
speak up regarding their release plans and maybe step up to maintain
such a stable branch.

I suggest to follow only the rule, that fixes have to be submitted first
to master and are only then allowed to be backported to gnome-3-4 as is
done for the stable Linux kernel releases.

Of course I would also volunteer to upstream the patches tested and
applied to the Debian Evolution packages.

I hope that will help important and widely used packages to stabilize
for their users and also reduce the work for maintainers to not double
their work.

If that is approved what would the volunteers required to do to get push
access to the gnome-3-4 branch?


Thanks,

Paul


[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683732
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682398#c13
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