[Banshee-List] 2.6.1 (was: Re: Release management, and stepping it up to 3)

["Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte gmail com>]

On 28/03/13 11:20, Bertrand Lorentz wrote:
> > BTW, regarding 2.6.1, I would like to get on it a fix for a crasher that
> > happens when using Ubuntu 13.04 beta. The proper fix should maybe really be
> > in gtk-sharp, but the workaround in Banshee is trivial and I guess it's much
> > easier to convince the Ubuntu community to include an updated stable banshee
> > than to rush a gtk-sharp 2.12.x release (which may contain very little) in
> > 13.04 final. So by saying this I'm suggesting to not release too late and
> > not release too early either (wait for this fix!), I'll share more details
> > at the end of the week.
>
> Sure, I'll wait to hear from you before going ahead with 2.6.1. I
> don't think it's going to happen before next week anyway.

Bertrand, given that you seemed to want more time to review the patch, I 
left it in the bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=696111

Now, take in account that today I convinced Ryan to give us more time to 
fix the problem in the binding, and he committed [1] a workaround in 
glib master and the 2.36 branch, which will become 2.36.1 and is what 
Ubuntu final will use, he told me. You could still apply the 
workaround-patch anyway, just in case.

This problem is even more severe in the case of gtk3 branch, because it 
affects more GInterface usage than in the master branch. Fortunately, I 
think I've just found also a fix for upstream gtk-sharp, so I proposed a 
pull-request:

https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp/pull/60

Easiest way to test it is run the samples/treemodeldemo.exe in gtk-sharp.

We could do another 2.99.x release of gtk# to get more testing. If we're 
happy with it after some time, I guess it would be desirable then to 
backport the fix too to the 2.12 branch.

Cheers

[1] 
https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commit/?h=glib-2-36&id=cf1285a4a473ec0f9b51b298b4ea9c4717cb1243

PS: Don't forget the other workaround for the gconf threading bug (patch 
from kalev).