Plans for GTK+ in the next cycle

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

I've meant to write this mail for a while. Now that 2.16 is released,
it is really overdue. Here are my thoughts on the next GTK+ cycle. I
think we should aim to release 2.18 around the next Guadec (this was
the original plan for 2.16, before I decided to shorten it and do a
release in sync with Gnome 2.26).

Here is a short list of things that I consider as candidates for the next cycle:

- Alex' client-side windows work

- Making flippable widgets non-abstract
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=553573)

- A message area widget (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555344)

Other things are of course possible, depending on people signing up to
do the necessary work.

In order to get Alex' work merged asap, I'd like to see GTK+ (and
GLib) do the move to git earlier than the proposed date of April 16
for the general git migration of Gnome. So unless there are violent
complaints from regular committers, I propose to have GTK+ and GLib
migrate to git by March 31 (ie a week from now).

Our plans from last year were aiming for a parallel 2.90 release at
the same time. Since I haven't heard an update from the 3.0 drivers, I
can't say if that is still realistic at this point.


Matthias