Re: ORBit/bonobo deprecation?

[Peter Parente <pparent us ibm com>]

>> Maybe some words on the wiki clarifying what the b&C deprecation means 
>> would be beneficial?
>> 
> That would be the right thing to do.

Great. Can someone from the release team include what Elijah said about 
continuing to release bug fixes, deprecated not implying unsupported, etc. 
to the http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointNineteen/Platform page? There is a 
brief note there already, but the clarifications would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Pete

Peter Parente
IBM Linux Accessibility Project
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Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas broadpark no> 
05/22/2007 03:27 AM

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Peter Parente/Raleigh/IBM IBMUS
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Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>, Ariel Rios <ariel gnu org>, 
release-team gnome org, George Kraft/Austin/IBM IBMUS, Larry 
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Re: ORBit/bonobo deprecation?






man, 21.05.2007 kl. 23.20 -0400, skrev Peter Parente:
> > Also, note that deprecated != unsupported.
> 
> I think this is the key point. Can you clarify the distinction? Does 
> !unsupported mean module maintainers for bonobo, ORBit, and language 
> bindings are still actively accepting patches and fixing bugs as they 
are 

Most definitely accepting patches and fixing bugs when they show up. I
don't think anyone is deeply involved in fixing long standing issues
that take a large amount of work, but we've been releasing bug fixes on
a regular basis up to 2.18.0 at least. No reason why we should stop
doing that now.

> filed? Does deprecated simply mean new libraries should not begin using 
> b&C? More importantly, is the GNOME community at large aware of this 
> distinction? I get the feeling that deprecated -> unsupported to many 
> people without explicit verbiage stating otherwise.
> 
I have always had the impression that deprecated means not encouraging
new users, but it seems we should clarify that since there seems to be
confusion around this issue.

> Maybe some words on the wiki clarifying what the b&C deprecation means 
> would be beneficial?
> 
That would be the right thing to do.

Cheers
Kjartan