Fwd: FYI: Remote DOS in Pidgin 2.2.0 over MSN

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Thu Sep 27 22:55:25 EDT 2007


Stu Tomlinson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 22:45 -0400, Luke Schierer wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 08:52:59PM -0400, Torrey McMahon wrote:
>>> Hi Luke. Do you expect to be releasing a "dot" release with this fix in 
>>> the near future? Any date range?
>>>
>> By my calendar, 2.1.1 should come out on the 4th.  If we were to string
>> freeze tomorrow, that would really only give us a couple days earlier,
>> unless we were to give translators very little time to translate.
> 
> I think you mean 2.2.1, and the MSN code is nowhere near release-worthy.
> I suggest, if we're going to release for this, we create a branch from
> 2.2.0 for 2.2.1 and include this fix and other known good fixes (such as
> the multiple memory leaks) in that (we can probably do this without
> adding new strings).
> 

+1, this is a very good plan.  No chance of regressions in this release, 
and the resulting tarballs can be used directly by us distributors.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com


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