Re: Minutes of the meeting (2006-07-21)

["Luis Villa" <luis villa gmail com>]

November 7th of '05, to be specific, I said I was nothing but a lurker :)
Luis

On 7/22/06, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> I thought I left r-t for all except 'I'll skim the mailing list'
> purposes, like, ages ago? :)
>
> On 7/22/06, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> > Here are the minutes from yesterday's meeting.
> >
> > Feel free to slap me for errors :-)
> >
> > Attendance:
> > ===========
> >  Frédéric Crozat
> >  Jeff Waugh
> >  Federico Mena-Quintero
> >  John Palmieri
> >  Elijah Newren
> >  Vincent Untz
> >
> > Missing:
> > ========
> >  Kjartan Maraas
> >  Luis Villa
> >
> > Agenda:
> > =======
> >
> >   + new modules decision
> >   + accepting gtk# apps in the desktop (related to first item)
> >   + getting new people in the team? (if some of us want to leave)
> >   + will the subversion migration (if it goes forward before 2.16)
> >     mess up the release schedule?
> >   + do we have anyone on the line for writing release notes?
> >   + http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Tasks is out of date at
> >     least as far as people to task matching.  Do we want to try to
> >     re-divide things up?
> >
> > New modules decision:
> > =====================
> >
> >   + orca
> >     => full support from the community, even from the gnopernicus
> >        maintainers
> >     => we have to encourage orca people to make the migration as smooth
> >        as possible (and they're willing to do so)
> >     => IN
> >     => it probably means we dump gnopernicus
> >
> >   + alacarte
> >     => users like it
> >     => some distributions (will) ship it
> >     => gsimple-menu-editor is far too simple
> >     => no issue with this module
> >     => we need to patch the apps to make use of it (gnome-panel patch
> >        available)
> >     => IN
> >
> >   + gnome-power-manager
> >     => positive consensus
> >     => IN
> >
> >   + gtk# (for the bindings suite)
> >     => positive consensus
> >     => need to split API/ABI (stable vs unstable) (think gnome-python,
> >        gnome-python-desktop)
> >     => IN if it can be splitted (or without splitting if there are solid
> >        concerns about doing so)
> >
> >   + tomboy
> >     => we don't consider the use of gtk# in desktop for now
> >     => positive consensus
> >     => some issue wrt duplication with and/or import from sticky notes
> >     => Jeff proposes something else: don't accept it because it's cool
> >        and we want to encourage an outside ecosystem
> >     => Vincent disagrees about taking such a decision without knowing
> >        what the community thinks about it
> >     => decision: let Jeff send a mail about it, look what Alex thinks
> >        about it and see if there's a new consensus
> >
> > Accepting gtk# apps in the desktop:
> > ===================================
> > Was not debated because of the tomboy decision and lack of time.
> >
> > Subversion migration:
> > =====================
> > It might be an issue if it takes a long time (blocking releases, eg).
> > Jeff wants to push for postponing the migration to after 2.16, so this
> > would not be an issue.
> >
> > Getting new people:
> > ===================
> > Luis will probably want to leave the team. We need to ping him so he
> > finds a new member.
> > Anybody else wanting to leave?
> >
> > Writing release notes:
> > ======================
> > We'll find someone by mail.
> >
> > http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Tasks
> > ============================================
> > Feeling that it will never be uptodate. But we can try updating it :-)
> >
> > Vincent
> >
> > --
> > Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.
> >
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