Re: hal and jhbuild

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 8/20/06, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc inescporto pt> wrote:
> On Sáb, 2006-08-19 at 18:57 -0600, Brent Smith wrote:
> > I'm going to commit a change to freedesktop.modules to checkout hal from
> > the tag "HAL_0_5_7_1" and add a patch to jhbuild to fix the two
> > instances where dbus_connection_close() should be used.
> >
> > Unless anyone has any objections...

Yaay, Brent!

>   I think GNOME developers that are maintaining modules listed in the
> GNOME moduleset should have a clear obrigation to keep their modules
> buildable at all times, no matter what.

Agreed, but your sentence doesn't include developers of
freedesktop.org modules; for this cycle at least, it has been the
freedesktop.org modules that have caused the vast majority of the
build headaches.  So, we need something more encompassing than just
the requirements you suggest.

> I don't mean maintainers need
> to constantly build the whole GNOME stack, but if someone offers a patch
> to make it build in GNOME it is just irresponsible if the maintainer
> doesn't apply the patch or equivalent fix in a timely fashion, because
> the failure of one module often makes the whole GNOME stack
> unbuildable and blocks the work of potentially dozens of developers.
>
>   I'm not sure what happened in this particular case, but this failure
> has existed for a long time (weeks?); it should have been fixed a long
> time ago.
>
>   Maybe we need a set of written policies for this sort of thing...

And to stop depending on cvs versions of freedesktop.org modules
except perhaps in very specific exceptions-to-the-rule cases (cairo?)
that get proposed on d-d-l or something like that.