GTK+ Team Meeting Minutes - 22nd May 2007

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hey everyone;

these are the minutes for the gtk+ team meeting held on may, 22nd 2007. 

the meeting was incredibly good and I'd like to thank everyone that
participated tonight.

as usual, the (slightly edited) log of the meeting is available on the
gtk+ website, at

  http://www.gtk.org/plan/meetings/

enjoy.

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1) decide next meetings' day and time

  the day seemed fine, but 21:00 UTC looked like to be pretty late for
  many; mclasen proposed to move the meeting time one hour earlier, at
  20:00 UTC. everyone agreed.

  ACTION: the meeting date stays at tuesday (unless in case of major
          schedule conflicts), but the time is moved at 20:00 UTC

2) summary of board meeting about gtk+

  rambokid reported on the AB meeting about gtk+: state of the
  maintenance (corporate support, GtkLove and GtkTasks); some companies
  promised more work with upstream and some are interest in financial
  support for the foundation.

  also in the AB meeting: the foundation offered support for allowing
  a conference call set up for the gtk+ team, in addition to the irc
  the usual GUADEC meetings. such conference call would be useful for
  discussing financial issues, pre-release high bandwidth decisions,
  etc. and it would be ideally done just once per release cycle.

  ACTION: ebassi will gather the action points and the attendees when
          the conference call is needed

3) GtkTasks

  gtk+ managerial-type tasks have been set up on the wiki. it seems they
  did reach out to the community and effectively made possible to spread
  out the management of gtk+ to a wider number of persons.

  mclasen proposed to add a GtkTask for pre-release checking: backend
  maintainers should smoketest a release before it's actually packaged.
  ebassi and jdahlin asked whether the build brigade could help in this
  task, by adding multiple architectures to the build and check that all
  the different backends are at least in a buildable state.

  also a "svn-frozen" state should be used on the glib/gtk+ repositories
  when the release is being made, to avoid commits breaking the dist
  check phase.

  ACTION: mclasen and bkor will investigate what's needed for locking
          a svn repository

  xan asked for a way to flag bugs and poke maintainers and core
  developers for reviewing patches in bugzilla. rambokid and mclasen
  wanted a regular bug summary, with a per-maintainer break down like
  the ones that owen sent on the list.

  ACTION: xan will do a bug rundown and regularly send it to the
          mailing list to avoid patches bitrotting in bugzilla

4) releasing schedule

  behdad wanted to land in gtk+ trunk the pango-1.18 changes, in
  order to target a pre-guadec release of pango; mclasen agreed.

  mclasen asked for outstanding API additions to glib 2.14; mitch and
  ebassi pointed out the xdg-user-dirs support, which has a full multi
  platform implementation in gimp, but no defined API. mclasen said
  that glib could delay API freeze if an API is proposed.

  ACTION: mitch will work on an API for xdg-user-dirs support

  no outstanding bugs blocking a semi-frozen glib 2.14 developers 
  snapshot.

  ACTION: mclasen will try and get a glib API frozen snapshot out
          next week

  major blockers for gtk+ 2.12: gtkbuilder, finish notebook d-n-d
  API changes, offscreen rendering. gtkbuilder is the biggest
  blocker, followed by the offscreen rendering. rambokid has been
  reviewing the offscreen rendering patch and said that the widget
  snapshot code still has some bugs but might land in time for
  2.12; the event redirection still needs work. gtkbuilder needs
  a final review cycle. notebook d-n-d changes too need a final
  review cycle for the window creation signal patch.

  ACTION: garnacho will work on the notebook d-n-d patches, and
          will cc mitch on this
  
  ACTION: rambokid will work on the offscreen rendering patch

  minor pending items for gtk+ 2.12 from kris: tooltpip positioning,
  tree view column resizing and tap-n-hold API.

  minor pending items fro gtk+ 2.12 from mclasen: compositing window
  patch from desrt.

  ACTION: mclasen will try and get a developers snapshot of gtk+
          out next week along with the glib one

  kris proposed to shift the release dates for glib 2.14 and gtk+ 2.12
  by a month; this would move the release dates from pre-GUADEC to
  slightly post-GUADEC, just like last year. everyone agreed.

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ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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