FC5test1 devel freeze, November 14th

[Jon Nettleton]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 19:05 -0500, John Ellson wrote:
> Jon Nettleton wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 10:19 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> >   
> >> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 16:35 -0500, Warren Togami wrote:
> >>     
> >>> If you are involved in the development of Fedora Core as a packager,
> >>> here is information that will be relevant to you.
> >>>
> >>> FC5test1 devel freeze now November 14th
> >>> =======================================
> >>> Rawhide is undergoing a large amount of churn as we are preparing for
> >>> the switch from monolithic to modular X.  Modular X is one of the larger
> >>> and more important changes of FC5, meaning we need extensive test
> >>> exposure.  For this reason the test1 devel freeze has been postponed
> >>> until November 14th.
> >>>       
> >> Warren,
> >>
> >> While I know that the move to modular X is important, there's some other
> >> nagging issues in rawhide that are going to drive the list mad if they
> >> aren't addressed before test1 is released.
> >>
> >> The most obvious of these (IMHO) is devices not appearing on desktop or
> >> appearing to be mounted from Computer (et al) when they are indeed
> >> mounted.
> >>     
> >
> > This problem is fixed in Hal cvs.  We are working on a timetable for a
> > 0.5.5 release, that will include these changes.
> 
> Will this also fix the problems with USB cameras  (all 457 different 
> types of USB camera, afaict) ?  
> 
> John
> 

These fixes are all limited to removable storage.  I was unaware that
there were problems with USB cameras.  Do you have a bugzilla I can
reference?

Jon