On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 19:20, Colin Walters wrote: > Hi, > > So I'd like to cut a 0.6.5 release fairly soon, probably by tomorrow. > If there are any pending patches you think should be in, please let me > know. > > Now, as for 0.7: it looks like we aren't going to be included in GNOME > 2.6 officially. Influential people on the release team were of the > opinion it Rhythmbox would be better in a separate multimedia release. > > Personally, my criteria for 0.7 being included in GNOME was getting > GStreamer metadata loading working. It's still up in the air as to > whether or not GStreamer will work well enough in that timeframe. > > Since up until now we'd been aiming for the GNOME 2.6 schedule, > including the feature and UI freeze, this would push things such as the > ipod integration to a 0.9 branch. > > So given the above, I propose we don't try to get 0.7 in GNOME 2.6. It > was a cool idea at first, but really, I think we've done really well so > far with separate releases. > > If we don't aim 0.7 for GNOME 2.6, this opens the door to other UI > changes (needed to fix some currently open bugs) and integration of > things like the ipod work. > > This would also give the GStreamer people more time to get things right, > since they don't have to worry about us breathing down their necks as > much. > > Oh and something I forgot to mention earlier: the plan is that 0.7.x > releases will be a development series. Then when we release it > officially, it's 0.8. Then 0.8.x are stable releases, much like ones in > 0.6.x are now. > > Thoughts? > Personally, I really like the maintenance of separate stable and development series, as long as actually keeping up with them isn't causing too much trouble.
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