Re: Gtk/Gnome release schedules

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 18:55, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:38:21PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote: 
> > If gtk needs longer than 6 months for 2.4 fine, its nice to know
> > that up front.  Why not make gnome 2.4 a longer cycle to correspond
> > to the planned 2.4 period.
> 
> Assuming we want to match gtk/gnome period, we want the same period
> for gtk/gnome but not in sync. Right now they're in sync. So we would 
> need to do either:
> 
>  a) GNOME 2.4 in 6 months, GTK 2.4 in 9, GNOME 2.6 in 12, GTK 2.6 in 15
>                            ^ (with filesel/menus/toolbar/combo)
>    
> 
> or
> 
>  b) GNOME 2.4 in 9 months, GTK 2.4 in 6, GNOME 2.6 in 15, GTK 2.6 in 12
>                            ^ (punting everything but filesel)

Oh, yeah, another disadvantage of a filesel only GTK+ release I forget
to mention only... if we do that, we basically stall other GTK+ API
development for 6 months; this already happened with 2.2, which was
"multihead" only. 

Regars,
                                       Owen