Build Frequency

How often is the gnome 2 snapshot channel updated?

The last build I was offered was from the 17th of July.  Before that I was
offered a snapshot just about every day for a week.

Is it unpredictably sporadic depending on hacking and bug quashing activity?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alvin Thompson" <[email protected]>
To: "Luis Villa" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: New Build


> switching back to zvt at a later date is fine--just let us know before
> you do, so we can skip those builds. :)
>
> -alvin
>
>
>
> Luis Villa wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 15:59, jacob berkman wrote:
> >
> >
> >>i'm happy to announce that we got a green build :)
> >>
> >>i'm currently pushing a new build for red hat 7.2 and 7.3 which seem to
> >>have working menus[1].
> >>
> >>new in this build is that gnome-terminal is using vte, the terminal
> >>widget for gnome 2.2.  it does nifty things like reflow of text when you
> >>resize the terminal, and can do aa text.  also the rendering bugs should
> >>be gone :)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >FWIW, the snaps are using VTE ATM because
> >
> >(1) if RH is going to use it, I want it to be as robust as possible so
> >as to minimize the impact on GNOME's bugzilla. More crashes caught now
> >mean fewer crashes when 8.0 is released, which is good for GNOME. [Red
> >Hat don't see all the stack traces, so they aren't quite as concerned
> >about it as I am.]
> >
> >(2) it appears that the current effort to fix bug 78007 has stopped
> >momentarily, so we want to test vte's i18n and stability to see if the
> >community will do better with vte in the long term. Currently lots of
> >people in the community think we will but we can't know until people are
> >testing it.
> >
> >Most likely, if further attempts to fix 78007 or other zvt bugs are
> >made, we'll switch back to zvt in an attempt to test those. But I can't
> >honestly tell you if such attempts will be made or not, and if they
> >aren't, and vte is sufficiently stable and functional that the community
> >wants to switch to vte permanently, we'll probably stay there.
> >
> >Luis
> >
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