Re: GNOME 2.12 Proposed Schedule

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 13:37 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
>  
>
> > I thought we agreed near the end of the 2.12 cycle that an API freeze 
> > for non-core exported APIs should be added to the release schedule.
> >    
>
> We already say "API freeze is not required for non-platform libraries,
> but is recommended."
This is not as strong a position as seemed to be agreed when this thread 
came up before:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-February/msg00399.html

> Personally I think that's enough for now. There's already enough
> pressure not to break the GNOME build.
>  
I disagree; we had experience of this between Beta1 and Beta2 last 
time.  It is not reasonable to have to change client API usage between 
beta builds IMO.

- Bill