Re: Release management problems

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

On 02/07/2014 09:24 AM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Heya,
>
> We're running into trouble with the recent "Team" support in GNOME, as
> there's no backing NetworkManager release with the necessary team
> support:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723769

The bug also mentions geoclue requiring libnm-glib 0.9.9.0, but I don't
see any obvious reason why it should from the sources...

> It wouldn't be that much of a problem if Fedora didn't ship git
> snapshots of the "next" NetworkManager version. Why ship git snapshots
> in Fedora that are apparently not good enough for full releases?

Because all of the NM maintainers are also Fedora developers, and so if
bugs show up, we can fix them quickly.

I guess we should start hiding unstable APIs behind #defines so that
Fedora users don't accidentally depend on them.

-- Dan