On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 08:55:10AM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 08:29:41AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: >> >> First, Kalev and Richard are merging Kalev's work on moving codec (and >> >> font, mime-handler, etc) installation support from gnome-packagekit to >> >> gnome-software. This will let us drop gnome-packagekit for good. This >> >> affects gnome-software, PackageKit, gstreamer and totem. Merging is >> >> underway for this. >> > >> > Does gnome-software really work on anything other than Fedora? I'm going >> > to push for this on Mageia, but think we need to do a bit more outreach. >> > Further, probably need to inform distribution-list that they need to get >> > gnome-software working. >> >> I belive it works fine in openSUSE. RPM based distros seem to be >> fine, but I can't speak for Debian. Arch for sure, it doesn't work >> and thus Arch users are getting a major regression of not being able >> to use gnome-software to manage software groups and so forth. I >> understand that work is continuing for integration. > > Ehr? Mageia is an RPM based distribution, it does not work. So before > breaking some distribution they need to be pre-warned. This I asked for.
Ah, ok. Tha'ts unfortunate. Makes sense. Would you like the engagement team to deal with the outreach? > >> >> Next, there is the rewrite of the gnome-shell theme into sass by Jakub >> >> and Carlos Soriano. >> > [..] >> >> I'm fairly confident that we'll ge the codec install merging done >> >> today, but gnome-shell may need an extra day or so to sort out the >> >> branches. Given that we've already punted on the notification redesign >> >> once, I think we should try to get this in for 3.16. >> > >> > Feature based releases is bad, but 3.16 would be boring without it, so >> > think it is nice. >> > >> >> I think people will be disappointed if we let notifications slip >> another release. > > Release team is not the engagement team. This discussion is on the > release team list. There are different considerations. The purpose is to simply way on the community's behalf, consider it a data point for your consideration. Adding notifications will enhance the value of the release and will draw positive attention to GNOME. GNOME Software as you well observed has only limited affect because of the few participating distros. sri > > -- > Regards, > Olav _______________________________________________ [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/release-team Release-team lurker? Do NOT participate in discussions.
