Re: folks and gnome-contacts are going to make your lives miserable

[Travis Reitter <travis reitter collabora co uk>]

On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 17:02 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 10:49 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:55 AM, Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk> wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > > We don't want to make your lives miserable, but we're probably going to
> > > end up doing so.
> > >
> > > There are a number of big bugs still open against libfolks which we're
> > > working on as fast as we can in order to make gnome-contacts work for
> > > GNOME 3.2. However, there are probably still going to be some delays in
> > > getting all the necessary work done in libfolks and released, which is
> > > probably going to have knock-on effects on when gnome-contacts can be
> > > released.
> > >
> > > We're trying to get the API-changing stuff done first, so that
> > > gnome-contacts can depend on API-stable versions of folks, which can
> > > then be fixed later.
> > 
> > Philip,
> > 
> > thanks for the warning.
> > Is there a list of bugs we could watch to know how things are progressing ?
> 
> At a broad level, there's:
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=folks&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&target_milestone=folks-0.6.2

(note that the results Philip linked to were the union of what are now
the folks-0.6.2, folks-0.6.3, and folks-0.6.4 milestones)

> However, not all of those are critically important for gnome-contacts.
> The ones I'd say are important are:
>  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657065
>  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657141
>  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657783
>  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653728
>  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656689
>  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657142
>  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657635
>  • https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658002

Agreed in general.

Given that we're in a time crunch, I've re-defined the milestones:

0.6.2 - bugs that are essentially blocking the next gnome-contacts
release
0.6.3 - bugs that need to be finished by Gnome 3.2.0
0.6.4 - bugs that I would really like to fix by Gnome 3.2.0 (but not all
of which might make it in time).

The bug count for 0.6.3 is a little pessimistic, but I've been a little
too optimistic this cycle in general. Hopefully this balances it out.

I'm planning to get out 0.6.2 by Tuesday night (Pacific time) and 0.6.3
by Sunday evening (Pacific time).

This last month and a half has been particularly busy for me (and so
will be the next couple weeks), which has made our roadmap slip a bit
more than anticipated. Sorry about any trouble this is causing the
Release Team. We're going to be more careful next cycle.

Regards,
-Travis