Re: GNOME Productivity release set

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 09:44 +1000, msevior physics unimelb edu au wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 02:25 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 15:43 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> >> > On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 14:52 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> >> > > HI Vincent,
> >> > >            You can include AbiWord-2.3.1 as the inaugrial package of
> >> the
> >> > > gnome-productivity collection in this release.
> >> >
> >> > When we discussed this new release set in the board meeting, there was
> >> > some fear that, even without the initial proposal's references to
> >> > OpenOffice, this might not be as inclusive as we like to be. I
> >> > personally think that we can define it in a way that pleases
> >> everybody,
> >> > but we need to show that we can do that.
> >> >
> >> > So I think this release set should not be an official part of GNOME
> >> > 2.12. But if it works outside of GNOME 2.12 (as Platform Bindings did
> >> at
> >> > first), without controversy, then I think we'll have shown that it can
> >> > become official for 2.13/2.14, 6 months from now. I think that means
> >> > just listing them on separate wiki pages and linking to them as
> >> > "associated projects on the same schedule".
> >> >
> >> > At the very least, we need some text to define what this release set
> >> is,
> >> > such as we have for the existing 3 sets here:
> >> > http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/tasks.html
> >> > And any special guidelines, such as these for Platform Bindings:
> >> > http://developer.gnome.org/dotplan/bindings/rules.html
> >>
> >> Martin, is this acceptable to you, at least for 2.12?
> >
> > Martin?
> >
> > There's still no description here of what this release set would be, and
> > no other proposed modules yet:
> > http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning_2fTwoPointEleven_2fProductivity
> >
> > Have you made any progress on this?
> >
> 
> HI Murray,
>           Thanks for the reminder. I'll have a round of getting buy-in on
> all this.
> 
> My thoughts on the modules were, AbiWord, Gnumeric and GNOME-DB.
> 
> I'll see if anybody else is interested.
> 
> Gnumeric and GNOME_DB have told me that they were targetting September,
> 2005 for their next releases. (The AbiWord 2.4 release date is "within a
> month".)

What is "GNOME_DB". Do you mean mergeant?

> I suspect the ABI and API stability will be a too big an ask. From
> AbiWord's perspective we're still working out how to build Word
> Processors. I don't think we want to constrain ourselves to this level of
> backward compatibility for a while.

That was just an example. The productivity set may have other
requirements. ABI And API are mostly irrelevant here.

> I don't know whether this rules us out for inclusion in GNOME.

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Murray Cumming
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