Re: [Banshee-List] gtk3 branch testing

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2011/12/13 Andres G. Aragoneses <knocte gmail com>:
> On 12/13/2011 01:32 PM, olivier dufour wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> We have raise a important step in gtk3 branch of banshee. It become
>> usable thanks to scroll-bar works now with the last git master of GTK#.
>> All graphical bugs have been removed thanks to a big work of Bertrand.
>>
>> But now we need test. Do not open a bug on bugzilla for it but if some
>> users can test it and do a complete feedback about test to track any
>> regression on mailing list it can be usefull to fix all remaining bugs
>> before merge it to main (which is not plan for now to be christal clear).
>>
>> In order to test you need a mono parallel environment. To do that you
>> can use script from there :
>> https://github.com/nathanb/iws-snippets/tree/master/mono-install-scripts
>> or done it manually with this guid
>> http://www.mono-project.com/Parallel_Mono_Environments
>> After that, you need to build the last gtk# version from git master.
>> Maybe you will need few other library that you can found on
>> https://github.com/mono
>> So build all and build banshee gtk3 branch.
>> I know that some good guy as David will do so but more people we have to
>> test, less regression we will face later.
>> Bertrand will said when we have to open bug for gtk3 branch bug but , I
>> repeat, not for now. It is just to have more people who test to avoid
>> regression with the big merge.
>
>
> IMO the steps to do the testing are too complicated to do even for technical
> people. I think we should just merge the GTK3 branch as soon as possible to
> do a release. In the end we're still rolling out development releases, and
> this is exactly the purpose of this kind of releases: early feedback by
> users without the need of do the compilation themselves.

I tend to agree and as the, getting punished by OS X's strangeness on
a regular basis, guy I would like to have it merged quickly. If recent
history is any guide this is going to take an epic amount of time to
get working on OS X, let alone in a shippable state. However given
that the next release is set of the 21th (which my wife has graciously
agreed to delay the family vacation to allow me to do a build for), if
2.3.3 is going to be GTK#3 based I would love for it to be merged
today. More time for packagers to get this all lined up and tested
before a big holiday is a definitely needed. In my case it is made
worse by the fact that I will be gone effectively from the 22th till
around the 15th of January, with no connectivity nor my Mac handy for
any work.

Getting the OS X build to a state where it starts and doesn't crash in
the most trivial cases has taken a long time but I am finally able to
say that we can deliver such a build (much thanks to John Ralls for
GTK insight and a lot of very timely testing by Marco Dahms).

So consider this a plea to merge the changes now and live with a bit
of instability and breakage. I will pledge to do the work even if I
have to stop sleeping for the next week.

- David