Re: gnome-online-accounts freeze break request

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

I gave my approval on irc

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
> Ryan Lortie wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013, at 13:32, Ray Strode wrote:
> > > In https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705395 there's a fix for
> > > GLib to prevent a deadlock in gnome-online-accounts.  That commit went
> > > in at the "eleventh hour" and Dan Winship has expressed some concerns
> > > it may be riskier than doing a workaround in gnome-online-accounts.
> >
> > We're going to need at least part of this patch in GLib eventually
> > anyway, but I have misgivings about other parts of it.  The only reason
> > I'm happy to accept the changes now is because I've discovered a path
> > towards deprecating g_cancellable_disconnect() entirely.
> >
> > I have a patch for that already done, but it involves gsignal work and
> > it's way too risky to do this cycle.
> >
> > All around, though, if we could wait until next cycle for all of these
> > changes (to GLib), I would be much happier.  Approving Ray's request
> > would let me do that.
>
> I would have liked to hear Matthias take on this but as Ray is
> confident about it, and Ryan is ok with it, here's my approval.
>
>
>         Fred
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