On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 07:40 +0000, Marius Vollmer wrote: > I don't know how close the cooperation is at the moment, and it is very > likely that we indeed have failed to syncronize the releases. Actually, > if someone would claim that XFCE has failed to coordinate with _us_, I > wouldn't dismiss that right away. :)
Let's try to be clearer then. The XFCE repository seems to always have been the "upstream" version. That's the one distributed in all the other distributions (and the one distributed in MeeGo before a few days ago, I was the one packaging it first there), the one receiving l10n commits for instance and finally the one referred as "upstream" in the maemo fork, see a commit from today from instance: "Fix copyright in Makefile.am and configure.ac, to match upstream" Now if you add the fact that the maemo version breaks the thumbnailing specification for good but incompatible reasons (eg. saving thumbnails as JPEG), I don't think anyone can have a doubt on which version is the upstream one, regardless of the merit of Nokia helping tumbler in the first place. > I can't say yet how to proceed, but would you be happy if we merge the > XFCE and the Maemo code bases, call that 0.2, and agree on the canonical > place to release it from? The current version breaks the specified use of a thumbnailing service and thus breaks the applications that depend on it. It's not a rhetorical issue, it actually breaks what I'm working on. I don't see any other path than reverting the forked version and work with upstream to integrate maemo patches (amending the spec?, pushing the quill plugins upstream? if not possible out of tree plugins instead? etc...) Does reverting the last tumbler commit sound like a sensible option to everyone? -- Damien --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Corporation (UK) Limited Registered No. 1134945 (England) Registered Office: Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ VAT No: 860 2173 47 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. _______________________________________________ MeeGo-packaging mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-packaging
