Re: How to decide about 2.30 vs 3.0

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:02:06PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> However, it certainly makes sense to "formally" contact all the teams
> that had plans for 3.0 and see how they're doing. Eg, will the new
> website be ready? Does the documentation need more time to port more
> applications to Mallard? Is the marketing campaign ready? Are we
> confident enough to use the new accessibility stack? Does the usability
> team want to do a few more things before 3.0? Some of those things are
> not blockers per se, but accumulating them can make them blocker.
> 
> I'll probably do that at the end of the month, when we'll have 2.29.1 so
> that people can have a good idea of how things are now in the 2.29
> branch.
> 
> Is there any other things you think we should do on this topic? We could
> possibly ask distros what they think, eg.

GTK+ roadmap. Release planned end of this year, I fear it will be late.
There is a branch for 3.0 stuff, but need testing with applications.

dconf? Is the gconf bridge acceptable? If not, is there time to port
everything (I guess not)? How to migrate settings from gconf to dconf
(one time script perhaps?)?

And just plan usability. When you look at the new stuff in one picture,
is it nice? Real integration of chat into gnome-shell, journal thing,
etc. Is it something that provides a real improvement over what you can
do now? So it isn't just a new different looking panel.

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Regards,
Olav