Re: Minutes of 1.4 Release Committee (Dec 7, 2000)

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Jamin Philip Gray <jgray writeme com> writes:

> > Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu> writes:
> > 
> > > GDM:
> > >   * We need a good gdm.
> > >   * It is not getting much attention.
> > >   * gdm3 is unlikely to be done in time.
> > >   * gdm2 needs a lot of patches.
> > >   * Jacob agreed to merge in the existing patches to gdm2 to 
> > >     produce a good version for 1.4.
> > 
> > OK, this is ridiculous.  Can we get the code for gdm3 in whatever
> > state it is and find a new maintainer?
> 
> If someone would be willing to do some serious work on gdm3,
> maybe...but as it stands now, it seems gdm3 is a mess and it would be
> a lot easier to merge the Helix and Red Hat patches.  I don't know.
> Anyone want to take on gdm?
> 

I echo Jamin's sentiments. Finishing up gdm3 would be really nice, but
is unlikely to happen in a GNOME 1.4 timeframe from what we can see,
so we'd like to focus on getting gdm2 to a state taht is acceptable as
shipped.

 - Maciej