Hello Rutherther,

Rutherther <[email protected]> skribis:

> Starting December 1st the major updates freeze is in effect.
> This means packages with a lot of dependents should not be modified
> on master and also no new grafts please.

Maybe we should define “lots of dependents”: 500 or more?

> Because of this, we're creating the next-master branch. All major
> updates should now go to it.  We will be periodically merging master
> into the next-master branch.  And the idea is to merge next-master
> into the master branch after the release is done. Any package
> additions, fixes and security updates should still go to the master
> branch.

For security updates with more dependents than the agreed-upon
threshold, I guess there should be coordination with the release team to
decide what to do, right?

> We would like to also ask for help from you on the two following topics
> that we won't fit into our schedule:
> - Creating a foreign test for Fedora, let's align if you're interested
> here on the mailing list.

Context: <https://codeberg.org/guix/guix/issues/3576>.

Kudos for your hard work, release people!

Ludo’.

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