Re: [Maintainer Request] Gtk+ and GNOME software and tree commits

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On Friday 30 July 2004 09:00 pm, you wrote:
> I've been meaning to post about this for a bit. First, before anyone gets
> up in a bother about the state of Gtk+ applications, etc... hear me out.
>
> We must admit now that we are nearing 1.0 for Ark. This means that we are
> nearing  a stability point for users and developers as a platform. Once the
> beta status is placed on the tree we have an unspoken agreement that the
> dockyard and dockyard-devel trees will go in to "soft" freeze. This is no
> different than that of KDE's CVS tree getting placed in initial freeze. At
> RC 1 the thought is the tree would go in to deep freeze, where only
> software can be updated to fix showstopper bugs.
>
> Now, as the maintainer of GNOME and the various core glib / gtk+ libraries,
> I've been lax. Mostly due to a stressful job that keeps eating up my time
> and paying me with meagre wages. However, I need to put my foot down now
> before soft freeze occurs. My plan for 1.0 was to have all of the relevant
> packages for GNOME and Gtk+ compatibility up to 2.6.2 platform release.
> Unfortunately, I had not discussed this with others on the team, and as
> such, we are already passed 2.6.2 platform with gtk+ being at 2.4.4 instead
> of 2.4.3.
>
> I know that Gtk+ and GNOME isn't a major concern to some of the team
> members, however, I really did NOT want to have to raise the bar of
> platform release, but now I do. To be correct, we'd need to be on
> development platform release 2.7.4 to be using the version of Gtk+ in our
> tree. This has placed a larger task on my shoulders now.
>
> I guess what it comes to is this: when it comes to updating GNOME and Gtk+
> platform libs and such, please discuss it with me first. Also, I am
> freezing Gtk+ at 2.4.4 and the package versions of the core GNOME libs at
> 2.6.2 platform release. If you are planning on helping me get us up to date
> for GNOME, use only the packages found on the public ftp server for GNOME.
> Thanks.

Correcting myself: GNOME core libs for Ark 1.0 will be frozen at development 
platform release 2.7.4.

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