Re: Maintainership: was Re: Galeon 2 in the GNOME 2.2 Desktop

<quote who="Philip Langdale">

> Jeff, from your perspective, perhaps 2.2 is not practical. Worst case is
> that maintainership will be muddy until the middle of next month, though
> I hope it won't be that long; and I don't know how compatible my feature
> restoration work will be with your freeze restrictions.

Not very, as we're in feature freeze.

> I can assure you that in the long term galeon will not be rudderless, so
> let me know what you feel about this situation.

I'm very, very keen to have Galeon in the desktop, but only when you're
ready. If you guys want to take the next few months to get it running
smoothly, and adding the bits in that you feel are missing, 2.4 will be
better for it.

However, that may be time enough for the distributors to decide they don't
want to wait... They'll run with Phoenix or whatever, and Galeon will be
less relevant when we get to 2.4... (Not that it won't be in use by plenty
of users anyway given that it rocks so hard, but thinking about the
distributors is always good.)

Perhaps a better strategy would be to take the current Galeon, get it stable
and the current features fixed up (bonoboui bits, etc), and do your feature
hacking on another branch for 2.4. Galeon 1.3 is already so very close to
stable. I think this is a very realistic approach, if you guys have the time
for it (note that if it's in the desktop release, lots of other people will
be poking at it too, so you will get some help).

Thoughts?

  (btw, hope you liked my response on the Galeon features question - I'm
  sure that many of these can be put back in without the UI suffering too
  much.)

- Jeff

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