On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Sam Spilsbury <smspil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. > > So I'd like to start with an update saying that we've hit a pretty big > milestone in our 0.9.0 plans for world domination - that is that the > last plugin, DBus, has finally been ported and works. [1] The code is > currently undergoing review, and once some inconsistencies are fixed > up, it looks set for inclusion into master. > > This means that along with this, a 2D GTK Window decorator, git > changes amongst other things we are extremely close to fufilling our > release criteria for an unstable 0.9.0. > > So we need to sort out the logistics of a release. > > I have written a release announcement that can be found on GObby. Feel > free to edit it, it's probably not perfect by any stretch of the > imagination. The next thing we need to sort out is making sure all the > branches have been swapped over and that everything can be found in > /compiz on git. We also need to update the main page and the wiki to > take into account that the 0.9 branch is the one that everyone doing > development or testing should be using. I will handle publicity > related stuff. > > There are only a few more bugs that need to be fixed before a release > is all good, namely: > > 1. The initial stacking bug has come back again :( > 2. Bug with GTK Window Decorator where reloading the decor plugin will > cause ti to fail > 3. Windows disappearing when they change their title / size. I think > this was introduced only recently, so I can probably bisect to find > out what caused it and revert that commit.
One thing I forgot to add on top of this is that we need to merge in Kristopher Ive's documentation changes, but this should be trivial. > > Congrats everyone for staying on board and once we get 0.9.0 out of > the way, we can truly say that 1.3+ years of rather boring work > rewriting code is out of the way. > > Kind Regards, > > Sam > > [1] http://git.compiz.org/~smspillaz/dbus > > -- > Sam Spilsbury > -- Sam Spilsbury _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz
