Re: Getting serious about releasing

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On 23 Apr 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> > > 75150: automatic updating of menus doesn't work in panel 
> > IMHO puntable, just leave the impression there is no such thing as
> > auto-updating. Then re-add in 2.0.1 or whenever.
> 
> Another one where we can punt by disabling the feature.
>  

I think we need three lists - "disable feature", "puntable" "non-puntable"
- not all punting needs an action to be taken.

> > > 77146: if you run gnome-session twice it blows up (don't do that then 
> > >        is good enough for 2.0.0)
> > 
> > if its still around its non-puntable and has too low priority, otherwise
> > needs to be closed
> 
> No way, gnome-session has had this bug (doesn't worked right if you
> run it inside an existing session) for the entire history of
> GNOME. ;-) Very few people have noticed. Most people don't even know
> how to run gnome-session from the command line.
> 

You mean it acts differently when started from within another gnome
session? it definately detects an existing session manager if you try to
start it in a terminal under say cde.

> > > 75232: gtkhtml view in Nautilus crash
> > > 75387: Nautilus crash pressing escape while icon browser is loading
> > > 75120: Nautilus crash on startup (seems to be fixed, should close bug)
> > 
> > crashes aren't really puntable.
> 
> Yeah they are, if they are sufficiently obscure. No way we're going to
> ship with no known crashes.
> 

we should at the very leats strive to ship with no known crashes, beacuse
according to Murphy, teher will otherwise be a gang of mad vocal gnomes
somewhere who practice this as their daily obcsure thing to do. 

> > I snipped the individual ones, but "help" not working is not puntable. If
> > we don't have help for a spcific thing, then we should display a dialog
> > saying so. clicking on help needs to give an intelligent response.
> 
> If someone patches it sure, if they don't I'm willing to ship the
> GWeather properties dialog with broken help. We have much worse
> problems. e.g. GWeather parses the Yahoo weather site HTML and breaks
> every time Yahoo gets a cosmetic overhaul. ;-)
> 
> Of course maybe these should all be under "not puntable but can be
> made puntable by removing the help button"
> 

Possibly. or if there was a stock "no help exists for this, please help
the docs project" dialog or similar it could go theer instead of
disabling. or something similar.

> Yup, anyway, all details, main point is, let's get some stuff punted
> and get a smaller must-fix list to focus on.
> 
> Havoc
> 

	Sander

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