Re: gnome-shell network manager freeze break request

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Ray Strode <halfline gmail com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> As most of you guys know, nework manager 0.9 and the associated shell
> integration bits are very recent.  Right now the status indicator
> doesn't work with the latest version of network manager because of
> some minor api changes. Furthermore, through some testing a number of
> issues have been identified and fixed in the last day or so that
> significantly improve the experience overall.
>
> Links here:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-March/msg00379.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-March/msg00381.html
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-shell-list/2011-March/msg00382.html
>
> Rather than go through each change one by one, I am requesting a
> release team exception for all of the above and related changes in one
> go.
>
> It's one small part of GNOME 3, but it seems like a pretty important
> part.  There's just a few wrinkles that need to be ironed out to make
> things as seamless as possible.
>
> Can I get a +2 ?

I'll point out that one of the patches adds the string "firmware
missing" to gnome-shell.
We think it is pretty important to have this string in there, since it
will help people to google for their network connectivity problem.
'unavailable' is too generic, if we have more concrete information
about what the problem is.

+1/2 from me.