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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Deryck is actually looking at that one right now. (He started last week.) He 
sheparded the last one, so decided to do this one right now since it's pretty 
fresh in his head.

Sidnei said that this upgrade was pretty painless compared to the previous 
ones.

-- 
Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

On January 24, 2011, Robert Collins wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Gary Poster <gary.poster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > Hi Robert.  The people with more YUI 3 experience on my team have warned
> > me that jumps from one "big" version of YUI to the next--say, 3.1 to
> > 3.2--can be very disruptive.  They compared them to Python major dot
> > releases.
> > 
> > 1) Are you responsible for scheduling the YUI upgrades?  If not, and no
> > one is officially, I suggest that we find someone to take that
> > responsibility.
> 
> I don't have it on my 'things to check plate'. I could add it, or we
> can do it when useful in the same way we upgrade our zope dependencies
> - that is when someone wants something, we check the impact and do the
> upgrade.
> 
> > 2) For whoever will be responsible, what will our upgrade policy be?  I'm
> > interested in how it will be announced to the team and what kind of lead
> > time we should expect.  Perhaps others will mention other things to
> > consider.
> 
> I don't know :) What do you think we should do here? My initial
> thought is that staying up to date on YUI has significant benefits for
> us.
> 
> > As you know, I'm also interested in the Python upgrade story, and
> > coordination for a smooth transition to the next LTS.  I expect the
> > Python 2.7 migration is just another feature card that needs to have its
> > scheduling negotiated with Jono?
> 
> I think its reasonable to treat problematic dependency changes as
> feature cards for the feature queue. Not all important-dependency
> changes will be problematic or big enough to need a timeslot reserved
> like that.
> 
> -Rob
> 
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