Re: late coming features

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 08:29:41AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > First, Kalev and Richard are merging Kalev's work on moving codec (and
> > font, mime-handler, etc) installation support from gnome-packagekit to
> > gnome-software. This will let us drop gnome-packagekit for good. This
> > affects gnome-software, PackageKit, gstreamer and totem. Merging is
> > underway for this.
>
> Does gnome-software really work on anything other than Fedora? I'm going
> to push for this on Mageia, but think we need to do a bit more outreach.
> Further, probably need to inform distribution-list that they need to get
> gnome-software working.

I belive it works fine in openSUSE.  RPM based distros seem to be
fine, but I can't speak for Debian.  Arch for sure, it doesn't work
and thus Arch users are getting a major regression of not being able
to use gnome-software to manage software groups and so forth.  I
understand that work is continuing for integration.

> > Next, there is the rewrite of the gnome-shell theme into sass by Jakub
> > and Carlos Soriano.
> [..]
> > I'm fairly confident that we'll ge the codec install merging done
> > today, but gnome-shell may need an extra day or so to sort out the
> > branches. Given that we've already punted on the notification redesign
> > once, I think we should try to get this in for 3.16.
>
> Feature based releases is bad, but 3.16 would be boring without it, so
> think it is nice.

I think people will be disappointed if we let notifications slip
another release.

> Slightly concerned that Mageia 5 is still not out, so less testing from
> me. Further, think also Debian isn't testing 3.15. Think with such
> changes more testers would be helpful.


Ugh.

> --
> Regards,
> Olav
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