Re: [Banshee-List] gtk3 branch testing

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2011/12/13 Andres G. Aragoneses <knocte gmail com>:
> On 12/13/2011 01:58 PM, gnomeuser gmail com wrote:
>>
>> 2011/12/13 Andres G. Aragoneses<knocte gmail com>:
>>>
>>> On 12/13/2011 01:32 PM, olivier dufour wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> We have raise a important step in gtk3 branch of banshee. It become
>>>> usable thanks to scroll-bar works now with the last git master of GTK#.
>>>> All graphical bugs have been removed thanks to a big work of Bertrand.
>>>>
>>>> But now we need test. Do not open a bug on bugzilla for it but if some
>>>> users can test it and do a complete feedback about test to track any
>>>> regression on mailing list it can be usefull to fix all remaining bugs
>>>> before merge it to main (which is not plan for now to be christal
>>>> clear).
>>>>
>>>> In order to test you need a mono parallel environment. To do that you
>>>> can use script from there :
>>>> https://github.com/nathanb/iws-snippets/tree/master/mono-install-scripts
>>>> or done it manually with this guid
>>>> http://www.mono-project.com/Parallel_Mono_Environments
>>>> After that, you need to build the last gtk# version from git master.
>>>> Maybe you will need few other library that you can found on
>>>> https://github.com/mono
>>>> So build all and build banshee gtk3 branch.
>>>> I know that some good guy as David will do so but more people we have to
>>>> test, less regression we will face later.
>>>> Bertrand will said when we have to open bug for gtk3 branch bug but , I
>>>> repeat, not for now. It is just to have more people who test to avoid
>>>> regression with the big merge.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> IMO the steps to do the testing are too complicated to do even for
>>> technical
>>> people. I think we should just merge the GTK3 branch as soon as possible
>>> to
>>> do a release. In the end we're still rolling out development releases,
>>> and
>>> this is exactly the purpose of this kind of releases: early feedback by
>>> users without the need of do the compilation themselves.
>>
>>
>> I tend to agree and as the, getting punished by OS X's strangeness on
>> a regular basis, guy I would like to have it merged quickly. If recent
>> history is any guide this is going to take an epic amount of time to
>> get working on OS X, let alone in a shippable state. However given
>> that the next release is set of the 21th (which my wife has graciously
>> agreed to delay the family vacation to allow me to do a build for), if
>> 2.3.3 is going to be GTK#3 based I would love for it to be merged
>> today. More time for packagers to get this all lined up and tested
>
>
> As olivier mentioned, we need to get other releases done before merging
> (gtk-sharp 3.0 beta the main one) so I guess today is impossible :)
>
> We could harass Mike Kestner to do the beta release asap, and if it's still
> not too late, merge gtk3 before the 21th...
>
> But my feeling is that it's maybe rushing a bit. What we may want to do is
> get the gtksharp and gudevsharp releases out before the 21th, and then just
> after releasing 2.3.3, merge gtk3 branch into master.
>
> Let's see what Bertrand thinks!

Depending on a git snapshot shouldn't be a problem, every decent
packaging system supports doing that and it would allow some
flexibility in terms depending on fixes as they may be required.
Provided we just get a set of releases out to match with a lateish
2.3.x release I think it is okay and it allows Mike to evaluate when a
good time is to decree a beta with some real feedback from our
progress with Banshee. We have done it before.

In fact depending on a git snapshot is fairly easy in bockbuild, I
already do that for the 2.12 branch so to me that is business as
usual.

- David