Re: Speeding up 2.16

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:28, Matthias Clasen
<matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> I've received multiple requests from people who really want to use
> some of the new things in trunk in Gnome 2.26. Among the features of
> high interest are
>
>  - new status icon api
>  - using threads for page rendering when printing
>  - the new invisible char handling
>
> At the last team meeting, noone had objections to the idea of
> shortening the 2.16 cycle, moving currently unfinished
> things off to 2.17. Therefore, I'm proposing to target mid January for
> a 2.15.0 release and work towards a 2.16 release around the beginning
> of March. Among the currently unfinished things that we should try to
> complete within this
> shortened cycle are
>
> - progress in entries (this has been committed, but still has some
> issues that need to be addressed)
> - icons in entries (that patch has seen a lot of revision and is almost ready)
> - a GtkActivatable interface for action proxies (this is important,
> since it is a prerequisite for having
>  good GtkBuilder support in glade3)
>
Great. Shouldn't update jhbuild to build from trunk? That way 2.15
get's more testing

Jaap