Re: Dumping gnome-smproxy in 2.14

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 7/25/05, Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org> wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 23.07.2005, 00:58 +0200 schrieb Christian Neumair:
> > Am Freitag, den 22.07.2005, 08:38 -0600 schrieb Elijah Newren:
> > > On 7/22/05, Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 09:57 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > > > Honestly, any reason to wait to 2.14?
> > > >
> > > >         I'd like to, but I just don't think its very good form to do it post
> > > > feature freeze.
> > >
> > > When it fixes all kinds of bugs that ought to be considered
> > > showstoppers?  Also, from your explanation it didn't sound like you
> > > were proposing to add any features, merely to remove a "Feature" (i.e.
> > > BUG).  Having read lots of bug reports about the first three example
> > > bugs you list (I guess the other two were before my time?  Don't know
> > > why I didn't know about them), two of which basically make Gnome
> > > unusable, and additionally having been affected by all of those three
> > > on various occasions, even if this did break feature freeze I think
> > > you'd likely get the necessary approvals.
> > >
> > > Also, Havoc's comments about removing it seem instructive here (he
> > > thought it had already happened and that it should if it hadn't--and
> > > that was two years ago):
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118063#c27
> >
> > Did anybody of you already ask for approval? Mark, are you willing to
> > handle this?
> 
> Obviously not. I will ask the release team and inform you about the
> feedback.

He's the maintainer and I don't see how it breaks any freezes.  Mark
knows he needs to get approval and when not to--he was just bringing
it up on d-d-l because it had the potential to affect lots of stuff
across the board including things not Gnome.  He felt it was kind of
late to make such a change despite the fact that it didn't break
freezes--but further investigation seemed to show that we couldn't
find any adverse side-effects and the benefits were tremendous.

Cheers,
Elijah