Re: last call

[Janne <jan moren lucs lu se>]

For the API docs, could I suggest doing them in the same format as the
gtk API docs? That would mean they are readable with devhelp, which is a
surprisingly useful app for developers (in my view at least).


On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 04:30, muppet wrote:
> it's been a while since a major bug has been found in Gtk2 or Glib, and 
> there hasn't been a commit to either since last week.  if you know of 
> any bugs that need to be fixed before the stable release finally fights 
> its way out of beta, the speak now or forever hold your peace.
>
> otherwise, i will release the actual 1.00 of each on the tenth.
>
> so...
>
> /me points the microphone at the crowd and waits for a response
>
>
>
> as for the post-1.00 release plan:
>
> i plan to take a while off from making releases, as i haven't seen a 
> normal thursday night since Gtk2 0.90, which was twelve weeks ago.   
> the 1.00 release will reach a lot of people, and we'll get bug reports 
> i'm sure.  i'll reserve 1.01 for the Brown Paper Bag release, which i 
> hope will not be needed.  we'll collect the bug fixes and new 
> documentation (you guys are still writing documentation, right?) and 
> make a 1.02 in a month or so.  once gtk+ 2.4.x is generally available, 
> we'll start patching that in, and have another major stable release for 
> that, similarly for 2.6 etc.
>
> should we go to 2.00 for the 2.4/2.6/3.0 release, or just keep on the 
> 1.xx series indefinitely?
>
> i'd also like to get lots of example code up on the website, and start 
> discussion on how we're going to do the perl API reference docs.  (as 
> we've seen, not everyone in the perl community is comfortable reading 
> the C API docs.)
>
> in the meantime, torsten has taken the conch as maintainer of Gnome2 
> and will be making releases on Gnome2 on a separate schedule.  watch 
> for him on freshmeat -- http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnome2-perl/
>
> as always, comments, rebuttals, and questions are very welcome.
>
> --
> muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>
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