Am Dienstag, den 06.03.2007, 14:58 +0100 schrieb Vincent Untz: > Does anyone have some time to prepare a schedule for GNOME 2.19/2.20? boy, this time it's really non-trivial. before doing this, i've dreamt of having the api/abi freeze one week earlier so everybody has enough time to fix build breaks. but reality can bite... guadec is very late this year. i think everybody agrees that already being under api/abi freeze at guadec would be a huge motivation killer that definitely has to be avoided. the other constraint is the opensuse 10.3 release which is planned for the end of september (the final date is not fixed yet), and they would love to include gnome 2.20 if possible. so i've pushed back the api/abi freeze date to be after guadec, by compressing the schedule at the end. this results in a pretty tight schedule, means: perhaps having one release less (sched1), or having an earlier 2.18.3 release (sched1&2) to lower the stress of the maintainers. i have three schedule proposals at http://live.gnome.org/AndreKlapper/Sched1 (2.20 rel: sep 05) http://live.gnome.org/AndreKlapper/Sched2 (2.20 rel: sep 12) http://live.gnome.org/AndreKlapper/Sched3 (2.20 rel: sep 19). please also see those pages for more info on the changes. the proposal i'm in favour for is the second one. the definitely best one is the last one, but i just don't know how much we want to care about novell? (yes, i've asked them for info on how much time it approx. takes them to patch and include gnome 2.20 into their release.) i also wondered about the sense of having 2.even.3 releases, see [1]. if we would have a stricter policy on which patches are allowed to get into the stable branch, we would probably get more distros back again into shipping updated stable releases instead of backporting explicit patches. this would also reduce the bugsquad workload and provide a clearer bugreport feedback to identify the important issues. vincent will pick up this issue in a seperate email (*poke*). ;-) feedback, now! andre [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2007-January/msg00000.html -- mailto:ak-47 gmx net | failed! http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/portal/aklapper
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