Re: Gtk+ 2.8 for GNOME 2.12

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

[I'm not opposed to 2.7 going in anymore- what bugs there are seem to
be getting fixed very promptly- so this is just for information.]

On 7/18/05, Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 14:01 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, we GNOME 2.12 is planned to use GTK+ 2.8. There's always a slight
> > > chance that we would try to revert to 2.6 is something went terribly
> > > wrong, but things seem to be OK so far.
> >
> > It seems, from a vendor point of view (I'm not a vendor), that we need
> > to make a real statement, without the "there is a slight chance that
> > we'll revert to 2.6". Else, nobody will use GTK+ 2.8.
> 
>         Fedora has had GTK+ 2.7 for nearly a month now. I'm not aware any major
> issues with it currently ... Matthias would know better, though.

For the record, because fedora/rh basically actively discourage people
from using rawhide (though this is less true than it used to be),
'rawhide does $FOO' is not particularly persuasive to the QA team- the
evidence suggests that most people follow RH's advice and don't use
it. Mentions of breezy and hoary run about 5x the rate of mentions of
rawhide in bugzilla in equivalent time frames, and have done so
consistently since those were released. [In the past month, the
timeframe in question here, the breezy:rawhide ratio is in fact 50:2.]
This 'research' is to be taken with a grain of salt, obviously, since
many people don't feel obliged to mention what distro they run when
they file a bug, but that likely applies fairly equally to users of
both distros.

Luis (if I were in charge of rh/fedora QA, job #0 would be to increase
usage of rawhide)