Re: Gtk/Gnome release schedules

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:43:19PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:55:20PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> >  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)
> > 
> >  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)
> 
> > Your mail almost seems to suggest:
> >  c) GNOME 2.4 in 12 months, GTK 2.4 in 9, GNOME 2.6 in 18, GTK 2.6 in 15
> > 
> > if you meant that, that one seems worse than a) or b) to me. In
> > particular I see no advantage to it vs. a) - it basically just skips a
> > GNOME release we could make in the summer, for no good reason.
> > 
> > So I dislike c).
> I had not realized that (a) or (b) were even on the table.
> Both are preferable to (c).  My prefernce would be (a) because it
> gives us the biggies sooner.

Yes, my understanding is that the initial/status-quo proposal was a), 
and Ettore suggested we consider b).

People's objection to a) is of course no filesel in GTK for GNOME 2.4.

With these two options the filesel is minimum 9 months out and maximum
12, so I'm not sure it should be the deciding factor.

The only way to get filesel in 6 months will be a), plus some
cut-and-paste code or private library. I mean, we could try for 
"GNOME 2.4 in 6 months, GTK 2.4 in 6 months" but I bet that would end
up just being b).

Havoc