On Sun, Oct 02, 2005, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > Yes, I agree with Alejandro. GNOME has a fixed release schedule and we > don't. And though we can think that we are going to release in 18 months > from Sarge release (which would be great), spending a lot of time in > 2.10 is a waste of time, as for sure Etch is going to be released with > at least 2.12. If we were just 2 months far from release, making this > would be acceptable, but not just now.
I suppose you have seen how much time it took to get gnome-vfs2 in testing and what a pain it was not being able to upload packages depending on gnome-vfs2 for more than 2 months. If you recall that, you certainly are sensible to the list of ongoing transition (which are not necessarily GNOME ones). I checked with the release team what they would think of a Gtk transition (2.6 -> 2.8) right now, and they said it wouldn't be very reasonable. I didn't ask for GNOME 2.12, but I imagine what the response would be, be it with or without the Gtk transition. > With this, I am not saying that GNOME 2.10 should be abandoned, but > that 2.12 should start to be packaged and uploaded. Or it will happen > that closer to our release, GNOME 2.14 is going to be released and we > will want to include it in Etch, forcing people to jump from 2.10 to > 2.14, which usually is more difficult and errors prone. As I proposed, why don't you comment on the way I proposed the schedule instead of proposing a brand new "let's upload G2.12, yeepee!" plan? Cheers, -- Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
