Re: Gtk/Gnome release schedules

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:55:20PM -0500, 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)
> 
>  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)

> 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).
I had not realized that (a) or (b) were even on the table.
Both are preferable to (c).  My prefernce would be (a) because it
gives us the biggies sooner.