Re: GTK+-2.x planning

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM> writes:

> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM> writes:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Owen Taylor wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > This mail is intended to get discussion going on a 2.x roadmap for
> > > > GTK+.
> > > > 
> > > > As a strawman, I've taken 20 or so more or less major items (out of
> > > > 450+ bugs open in bugzilla for GTK+ alone), and distributed them among
> > > > version numbers.
> > > > 
> > > > The schedule below would be shooting for a quick 2.2 release with
> > > > multihead and official win32 in a couple of months, a followup 2.4
> > > > fixing the most remaining major missing pieces (GtkFileSel, GtkCombo
> > > > replacements) next fall, and then a 2.6 sometime in 2003.
> > > 		^^^^^^^^^			      ^^^^
> > > 
> > > next fall is 2003?
> > 
> > By, "next fall", I meant Fall 2002. 
> > 
> 
> This is very agressive schedule, IMHO. Not impossible - but quite low on
> margins for errors and accidents.

There are two ways to solve aggressive schedule problems:

 - Make longer schedules 
 
 - Take smaller steps

I think we have a good base to build upon in small steps at this point -
Perhaps trying to do filesel, combo, and menu api changes in a 6 month
release cycle is too much, but then the right answer may well be
to drop one of the items and do it for 2.6.

(Maybe the right timescale is 9 months, not 6 months. But it's clearly 
not 3 years.)

Regards,
                                        Owen