GNOME 3.3.90 post-mortem notes

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

As usual some comments about the release (but without the typo on mortem).

* Delay on the release *

This release was planned to be released this Wednesday [1], but was
finished today. The main reason is the delay on the release of several
major modules. WebKit made the release on Wednesday evening (so in the
practice for me was the same that Thursday), clutter (collateral effect
of Brno hackfest), clutter-gst, mutter and gnome-shell also provided
their releases on Thursday. Other modules were also providing the
release along the week (less important because previous releases were
compiling fine).

The good part of this delay is that I could also include empathy, as
they detected a problem on their 3.3.90 during this week [2], so a
3.3.90.1 release done this Friday was included.

* shared-mime-info *

I had some initial problems compiling this module, but was solved by
Colin Walters and Ryan Lortie during the week.

* gnome-disk-utility  *

I was not able to compile this module or udisks in my laptop with my
distro. After chatting a little on #release-team, we decided to include
it anyway, but it is not properly tested (I have realized that probably
this would be good to mention on the release announcement). Learned
lesson?: probably it would be good to have a VM with a distro able to
compile this stuff for the next release. Anyway, this sounds a little
like an overkill for just one module.

* aisleriot: *

I was not able to compile this module (but this also happened with
master). Didn't asked for a new release, as I was more worried for other
components, and asking a new release on Friday would be useless. I
included it on the skip list at .jhbuildrc.

* Minor: tracker *

I had a problem related with evolution. Asking on IRC:

<garnacho> API, hey, I think atm it's better to build with
--disable-miner-evolution on autogen, we have yet to update to evolution
api change

so --disable-miner-evolution added on .jhbuildrc.tarballs

* Minor: anjuta *

I had a problem related with vala. No answer on IRC, so I decided to add
" --disable-vala" on .jhbuildrc

* Minor: gnome-screensaver *

auto was not working properly.  fredp pointed me this bug [3], and
suggested to ask for a new release. As it was already Friday, I decided
to explicitly use " --with-systemd=no" instead of ask and wait for a new
release.

BR

[1] https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670638
[3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=669787

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Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias