Release Notes Time!

2013-02-27 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, It's that time again! GNOME 3.8 is due for release on 27 March: that means we have about two weeks to get the release notes fully written - that's not much time at all. Enter a trance-like state. Cast your mind back over the last six months. Ask yourself: is there anything I have done

Re: -Werror considered harmful

2013-02-27 Thread Colin Walters
On Tue, 2013-02-26 at 15:29 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: I'm not questioning that. I think the right question would be: how many bugs got fixed in GLib because of the warnings being enabled by default Initally? A lot, some quite bad. We were leaking internal symbols for example. But

Possible to fix glaring Gjs API issues before GNOME 4?

2013-02-27 Thread Nikita Churaev
OK, so it seems that GNOME has a serious aim on making GNOME/JavaScript the preferred platform for new newbies. However, there are some API issues that make Gjs confusing, and bad for PEOPLE. 1. Some functions return useless success boolean: for example [success, contents, etag_out] =

Re: Possible to fix glaring Gjs API issues before GNOME 4?

2013-02-27 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 23:26 +0400, Nikita Churaev wrote: OK, so it seems that GNOME has a serious aim on making GNOME/JavaScript the preferred platform for new newbies. However, there are some API issues that make Gjs confusing, and bad for PEOPLE. 1. Some functions return useless success

Re: Possible to fix glaring Gjs API issues before GNOME 4?

2013-02-27 Thread Travis Reitter
On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 23:26 +0400, Nikita Churaev wrote: OK, so it seems that GNOME has a serious aim on making GNOME/JavaScript the preferred platform for new newbies. I'd just like to reiterate that the idea isn't that JavaScript is preferred for new developers or smaller applications (what