Re: Gtk/Gnome release schedules

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 18:55, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:38:21PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote: 
> > If gtk needs longer than 6 months for 2.4 fine, its nice to know
> > that up front.  Why not make gnome 2.4 a longer cycle to correspond
> > to the planned 2.4 period.
> 
> Assuming we want to match gtk/gnome period, we want the same period
> for gtk/gnome but not in sync. Right now they're in sync. So we would 
> need to do either:
> 
>  a) GNOME 2.4 in 6 months, GTK 2.4 in 9, GNOME 2.6 in 12, GTK 2.6 in 15
>                            ^ (with filesel/menus/toolbar/combo)

FWIW, there seems to be some consensus that GNOME2.6 in 12 months is a
bad idea, given that that would again be a late January release.
Otherwise, this seems pretty reasonable. 

Note that we should maybe think about doing not just gtk on this
schedule- nothing that has been said so far about gtk does not apply to
a lot of the rest of the devel platform.

Luis

Luis

> 
> or
> 
>  b) GNOME 2.4 in 9 months, GTK 2.4 in 6, GNOME 2.6 in 15, GTK 2.6 in 12
>                            ^ (punting everything but filesel)
>  
> and then we'll have things arranged more nicely.
> 
> Both a) and b) imply that GNOME 2.6 will be able to use new
> menu/toolbar/filesel APIs in their final GTK form, vs.  some internal
> library.
> 
> b) implies that GNOME 2.4 will be able to use the filesel API
> in final GTK form.
> 
> b) has a longer schedule for GNOME 2.4 which has a list of
> disadvantages I've already complained about at length.
> 
> Both plans punt at least some features to the 15 month timeframe.
> 
> Honestly, it's probably close to a tossup.
> 
> Your mail almost seems to suggest:
> 
>  c) GNOME 2.4 in 12 months, GTK 2.4 in 9, GNOME 2.6 in 18, GTK 2.6 in 15
> 
> if you meant that, that one seems worse than a) or b) to me. In
> particular I see no advantage to it vs. a) - it basically just skips a
> GNOME release we could make in the summer, for no good reason.
> 
> So I dislike c).
> 
> Havoc
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