Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell
- From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- To: Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Module Proposal: GNOME Shell
- Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:02:05 -0400
On Mon, 2010-04-05 at 18:26 +0100, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> > tarballs: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-shell/
>
> I notice you guys did only two tarball releases last cycle (and no
> 2.30 release), though there seems to be near-constant activity in git.
> Is this driven by stability issues, feature churn, or is something
> else up?
>
> I've found that the best way to keep track of gnome-shell developments
> is jhbuild, since no recent tarballs usually translates to no recent
> packages. But I admit that I miss tarball releases with their
> easy-to-read NEWS files, compared to skimming through git log whenever
> I update my jhbuild.
>
> For such a critical component of our desktop, I hope there are more
> releases next cycle, to facilitate more testing.
Well, in the 2.29 cycle, there were a combination of things, mostly:
* Time. Writing release announcements that are better than
'git shortlog' takes effort. Finding stable points to make
release where it's useful for people to package the shell
for distros takes time.
* Clutter upgrade to 1.2. This caused a lot of disruption in
the release schedule.
But, really, just see my reply to Guillaume:
> > During the usability hackfest some people complained that the lack of
> > development releases makes very hard for users to test the shell.
> > Are you planning to follow the 2.31 release cycle?
>
> Yes.
- Owen
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