This is a summary of an IRC meeting that was held this afternoon with
GTK+ team members and Mark McLoughlin as a representative of the GNOME
release team.
A complete log of the IRC conversation can be found at:
http://www.gtk.org/plan/meetings/20040216.txt
The general topic of the meeting was getting the GTK+ 2.4 release back
and track and out in a timely fashion. A primary concern here was
not holding up the GNOME-2.6 release further; the GNOME-2.6 schedule
can be found at:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.5/
General areas of concern
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The first subject of discussion was going over areas of special concern;
ones mentioned were:
Pango: A lot of open bugs
GtkFileChooser: Various niggling bugs and the possibility of more UI
rework
GtkComboBox: Some important (mostly implementation) issues need fixing
before 2.4.0
The huge pile of assorted GTK+ bugs
The Will-Fix list
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The biggest problem currently seems to be that we are just in the mode
of tackling bugs as they come in and not making progress towards
finishing
off the release. To combat that, the proposal was made to have a "Will
Fix"
list of bugs:
- On the web at http://www.gtk.org/plan/2.4/willfix.html
- Deadline for adding issues to it is this Friday, Feb 20
(important new issues that are found after Friday can be added
as exceptions)
- Issues on the list should generally either be blockers for
the release or bugs with patches
- Things not on that list will generally not be fixed