Re: Adjusting the 2.4 schedule

[Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de>]

Am Die, 2003-06-24 um 17.59 schrieb Owen Taylor:
> What we have on the web currently:
> 
> 8 December 2002  Start of development
> 1 February 2003  Have proposals for all major features, 
>                  decide what goes in, doesn't 
> 1 June 2003      All major features are in 
> 1 July 2003      Feature freeze 
> 1 August 2003    API/ABI freeze 
> 1 September 2003 2.4.0
> 
> Which, as people have said, looks pretty silly at this point.
> Here's a proposal for a new schedule, pushing all dates
> from "all major features are in" back 1.5 months.
> 
> 8 December 2002   Start of development
> 1 February 2003   Have proposals for all major features, 
>                    decide what goes in, doesn't 
> 15 July 2003      All major features are in 
> 15 August 2003    Feature freeze 
> 15 September 2003 API/ABI freeze 
> 15 October 2003   2.4.0
> 
> Which is still rather ambitious, since that gives us 3 weeks
> to land the major outstanding features:
> 
>  - Icon theme
>  - File selector
>  - GtkToolbar
>  - Menu API
>  - Combo API
>  - Entry completion
>  - Filter model
>  - Color/font picker
>  - Disclosure triangle
>  - X cursor support for GTK+
> 
> My feeling is that we should revaluate where we are in 2 weeks
> and see if we need to a) extend the major feature freeze a bit
> more b) punt stuff to 2.6.
> 
> Features from www.gtk.org/plan/2.4/ that I think we should definitely
> punt to 2.6 at this point are:
> 
>  - Height-for-width geometry management. (already punted in bugzilla)
>  - Reworked tooltips
>  - Optimized pixbuf operations
>  - Smooth scrolling", like in Internet Explorer (#103811) 
>    [ my impression is that more experimentation is needed
>      here to figure out the final API ]
>  - GtkResizeGrip -- a widget implementing a resize grip. (#73359)
>  - Integration of directfb port.
>  - Most of the GtkTreeView features. (I don't see how Kris
>    is going to  have time for Combo, Filter, and a dozen 
>    other features.)
> 
> What do people think?
> 
> 					Owen
> 

I have now adjusted www.gtk.org/plan/2.4 accordingly and moved some
features which won't make it to a beginning of a 2.6 plan.

Regards, Matthias