Re: State of gvfs in Gnome 2.21

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 08:42 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 8:36 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > Despite all the hard work, it doesn't look like the new Nautilus will be
> > ready for GNOME 2.22 without regressions.
> >
> > Why aren't we talking about punting it until GNOME 2.23/24? We've never
> > allowed this kind of thing before - punting would be entirely normal.
> 
> We once delayed

delays are generally very disruptive to other projects (distros, mostly)
who have aligned with our schedule. Reverting would have to be really
impossible.

>  a release for a gtk release which wasn't yet stable,
> IIRC- the porting was too far along to revert the porting work in a
> timely manner (which I'm guessing is also the case here) and the
> regressions were too large to do a .0 (which also seems to be the case
> here, though I haven't followed it closely.)
> 
> But agreed that the right thing to do is to delay the release rather
> than release a .0 with substantial regressions (as I ranted on a bit
> at my blog and on gnome-bugsquad.)
> 
> Luis
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