Hi Vincent and Alex, 2008/2/12, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Le mardi 12 février 2008, à 16:13 +0200, Lucas Rocha a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > 2008/2/12, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Feb 12, 2008 8:36 AM, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Despite all the hard work, it doesn't look like the new Nautilus will be > > > > ready for GNOME 2.22 without regressions. > > > > > > > > Why aren't we talking about punting it until GNOME 2.23/24? We've never > > > > allowed this kind of thing before - punting would be entirely normal. > > > > > > We once delayed a release for a gtk release which wasn't yet stable, > > > IIRC- the porting was too far along to revert the porting work in a > > > timely manner (which I'm guessing is also the case here) and the > > > regressions were too large to do a .0 (which also seems to be the case > > > here, though I haven't followed it closely.) > > > > > > But agreed that the right thing to do is to delay the release rather > > > than release a .0 with substantial regressions (as I ranted on a bit > > > at my blog and on gnome-bugsquad.) > > > > I agree. We shouldn'd discard the possibility of either postponing the > > gvfs-based Nautilus or delaying the .0 release if needed. Obviously, > > releasing Nautilus with too many or some big regressions is not a good > > plan. > > > > Personally, I'm more in favor of postponing the gvfs-based Nautilus > > because delaying our release can bring more problems for us and for > > the projects relying on our schedule. > > > > Hence, it would be good: > > - to have a plan with the list of regressions we can't accept for 2.22 > > - to hear (mainly) from Alex if this plan is feasible > > At this point, it's not just about nautilus. Other modules were ported > to gio... Reverting, while doable, would be painful. > > I'm not sold on the fact that there are many important regressions. The > main regressions, in my mind, are the ftp backend, the network backend > and the connect dialog. There might be some other regressions, but I've > not noticed them. (well, there are also the themes and fonts backends, > but they're clearly not blocker) > > Network backend and Connect dialog shouldn't be hard. I'm volunteering > to do the Connect dialog. And maybe the network backend if nobody steps > up. > > There are plans for ftp, but I don't know the status of this, so I'll > let someone else talk about it. > > All in all, we're still in good shape, IMHO.
Good to know. I gave a not-so-well-informed opinion about this topic and created some unintended noise. Sorry for that. Let's work on having the best possible release with the new stuff. :-) --lucasr _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
