Re: API freeze and feature freeze on Jan 10th

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 11:14 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 12:16 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > GNOME 2.9 will hit API/ABI freeze and feature freeze on January 10th, so
> > you have just a few more days to make those last-minute changes:
> > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.9/#API_Freeze
> 
> Just to note that the API freeze will leave nautilus-cd-burner in a bad
> state. I haven't had time to finish the work I started on it, and the
> API is still a bit in motion.

What new API has been (or will be) added/changed?

What are the consequences of using the older API? Maybe it can wait for
2.11/2.11?

> It's the first time the API (and code) freezes are done after Christmas,
> and I, along with a couple of other developers, won't have time to
> finish what we set out to finish.

On the other hand, API changes really shouldn't be done at the last
minute. Christmas happens regularly, and it shouldn't be a surprise.

> If the problem was only new features would get punted, it wouldn't be so
> much of a problem, but there are already added features that need
> cleaning up.
> 
> I would hope we could push the schedule back by a week (at least).

We really should avoid that.

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