RFC: GNOME Showstopper Review

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Proposal. If no feedback within the next 24hrs I am going to send this
to d-d-l.


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GNOME 2.22.3 Tarballs Due is on June 30 (see [1]), and we have some
blocker bugs to fix. This list also includes 2.23 stuff at the end.
Reproduce, test, help out!

-andre


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EVOLUTION & FRIENDS
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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533122
Subject in message list does not match message preview
This is a bug bringing the folder summary out of sync with the mbox file
which is hard to fix for an average user. As far as I know, Srini is
currently working on a fix.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528902
time zone handling insufficient
Evolution has problems with displaying accepted meeting invitations in
the correct timezone. A contributed patch is available and hopefully
Chen will review this quickly. The patch requires an API extension (not
API change).

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GLIB
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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515777
incorrect date&time on copy
In 2.22 When copying a file, the datetime of the file in its target
directory will be set to the
current time but not to the original file's date and time. A lot of
people have been complaining about this (intended) change of behaviour
because they lose meta-information of when the file has been *changed*
(not: *copied*).

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GNOME-PANEL
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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504600
Crash in handle_cached_dir_changed
There has not been a single report coming from GNOME 2.22 so far, so
this may not be a blocker anymore.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515948
clock window not shown if e-d-s has not authenticated to google calendar
If a google calendar exists in Evolution and one clicks on the time in
the clock applet, it hangs because google calendar is not available
unless evo authenticates it. Very annoying, no patch available yet.
In general, Google calendar support in Evolution is quite buggy and
there are several bug reports dealing with issues.

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GVFS
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http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524485
nautilus does not display samba shares for machines inside an ADS
network
This is a regression from 2.20.x. A patch is available and one commenter
has stated that the patch fixed the issue for him.

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HTTP://CRASH.GNOME.ORG (2.23 issue)
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Remember this one from 4 months ago? We still need a better
http://crash.gnome.org integration; especially getting debug information
from the distros so core files can be "decrypted" to stacktraces. I
wonder whether Fernando will ever work on writing documentation for the
distributions and defining a process.
Crash.gnome.org already receives reports nobody looks at because they
cannot be decrypted. We will lose even more user feedback if this
doesn't get sorted out.

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GNOME GOALS for 2.23
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A list of the few remaining modules that need to be patched to finally
get some of our GNOME Goals done. Let's please everybody get this done
in the next weeks for 2.23 to clean up our platform and finally drop
some ancient dependencies.

* http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PoLinguas :
gtk+, atk

* http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/PoptGOption :
alacarte, gnome-build, GnomePython

* http://live.gnome.org/GtkPrintPort :
gnome-python-desktop, anjuta, gnome-devel-docs (update), GnomePython

* http://live.gnome.org/GioPort :
PATCHES: bug-buddy, fusa, gtksourceview, libgweather
TODO: alacarte, control-center, ekiga, gedit, gnome-applets,
gnome-main-menu, gnome-media, gnome-python-desktop, gnome-utils, pygtk,
pygtksourceview, seahorse-plugins, gtk+, sabayon, anjuta, gdl

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Changes/Fixes since the last review[2]:
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Fixed issues: 509600, 509620, 511172, 512894.
Not a blocker anymore (way less dups and no reports from 2.22): 446097,
446183, 463147, 471133

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(for more information on showstopper reviews in general, see [3].)

[1] http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentythree
[2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2008-February/msg00055.html
[3] http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/ShowstopperReviews
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