Re: New maintainer

[Simon Wenner <simon wenner gmail com>]

Hi Jiří,

On 22.04.2010 22:43, Jiří Techet wrote:
> First I would like to apply the patch I have proposed here
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/libchamplain-list/2010-April/msg00003.html
>
> which makes it possible to compile libchamplain without memphis
> support. Please let me know if there is something fundamentally wrong
> with it or if it complicates bindings preparation. Otherwise I'm going
> to apply it.
>
>    
I'm fine with these changes. As long as local rendering is not 
completely removed. ;-)

Memphis was initially an optional dependency, but there were concerns 
that it would cause problems if chanplain's API is 'dynamic' and 
different versions would be distributed in different distributions.

Btw: Memphis is now packaged for Mandriva and it will enter Debian in 
the next days.
http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/memphis_0.2.1-1.html

> Second, I'd like to know from the bindings maintainers what the status
> of their bindings is and how much time they expect it will take to
> update them for 0.6. This will influence further planning. If I'm not
> mistaken, the maintainers of current bindings are
>
> Victor - Python
> Emmanuel - Perl
> Tomaž - Vala
>
>    
Is Tomaž working on Vala bindings for 0.5? I think we should stop 
writing them by hand and generate them from the gobject-introspection 
files (and additional metadata).
> Is anyone aware of any blockers or serious bugs in the mainline? Does
> anyone have any patches he feels that should appear in 0.6? Are there
> any pending patches that I haven't noticed and that should be
> reviewed? Please let me know.
>
>    
The new reference policy for certain objects will probably cause many 
bugs in applications.
Like: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=610168

Please document the memory management and cache changes you did, so 
people can easily port their existing applications to 0.6. A small 
How-To would be great.
> Since this is my very first experience being a maintainer of an open
> source project, there is a very high probability I'll screw up
> something horribly sooner or later. Please be patient with me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jiri
>    
Cheers,
Simon