Re: new modules for 2.12

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 16:32 +1000, msevior physics unimelb edu au wrote:
> > The release team met last week, and we talked a bit about the new
> > module stuff. As usual, we tried to understand and reflect the
> > community consensus as reflected in d-d-l and other forums, with the
> > understanding that sometimes we have to, you know, go ahead and decide
> > ;)
> >
> > In:
> > * evince: It's clearly a great, very gnome-y app. We'd like to thank
> > the ggv and gpdf authors for all the work they've done over the years.
> >
> > * services-admin: is now fairly polished and the maintainer wants it
> > in, and no one has objected to that.
> >
> > * gnome-keyring-manager: underwent a lot of work after the last round
> > of objections, and has not been objected to in its new format. Not
> > getting releases very regularly, though; we need that to change or
> > we'll have to punt it to 2.14.
> >
> > Punted to 2.13/2.14
> > * eggcups: this was pushed very late, and partially as a result there
> > is a lack of clarity and consensus here, particularly with regards to
> > the relationship of this to other pieces of the printing stack. We
> > look forward to those issues getting straightened out at the summit ;)
> >
> > * productivity/office suite: the discussions about where this would
> > fit, what the rules would be, etc., were never very conclusive; it
> > wasn't even clear whether or not this was our problem, so maybe it
> > isn't :) We'd love to see this stuff release on our schedule, and for
> > the folks involved including the heads of the various teams and the
> > heads of the various projects sit down and come to some conclusions.
> > Perhaps that'll happen at the summit too; if not, it needs to happen
> > somewhere else and obviously in time for 2.14.
> >
> 
> HI Luis,
>         The productivity/Office suite will contain AbiWord-2.4,
> Gnumeric-1.6 and probabally GNOME-db (I haven't had confirmation
> from Rodrigo yet but he has said that it would be ready previously
> and I only just asked him a few hours ago.)
> 
yes, gnome-db will be ready, we are about to freeze for releasing at
gnome 2.12 time.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>