Buildsystem / CVS outage for the merger

[Bastien Nocera]

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 17:12 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 May 2007 16:48:35 David Cantrell wrote:
> > I might be alone in this, but doing the merge now sounds like a bad
> > idea.  It didn't happen and we are frozen now for critical bug fixes for
> > F7.  Merging now sounds like too many opportunities for badness right on
> > the edge of releasing F7.
> 
> The release team and the board considered this, however we are keeping careful 
> eye on what package builds will actually get tagged for the final release.  
> We also kicked out the deep freeze date a week to give more slush time.  The 
> overall major goal with F7 was the merger, so we're accepting the extra risk 
> in order to make good on our goal.

We have a good bunch of bugs that are waiting on the merge to add
features/fix bugs. Eg. I'd like Rhythmbox to be able to tag MP3 files,
Totem to play VCDs, and HAL should be rebuilt to be able to change the
brightness on Dell laptops.

We've been waiting for the merge to fix those bugs (the merge should
have happened while we weren't frozen, IIRC), otherwise, we'd have moved
some of those packages in core to be able to get this functionality.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=236775