Re: Adjusting the 2.4 schedule

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 12:59, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Am Die, 2003-06-24 um 17.59 schrieb Owen Taylor:
> > Which is still rather ambitious, since that gives us 3 weeks
> > to land the major outstanding features:
> > 
> >  - Icon theme
> >  - File selector
> 
> Isn't the file selector stuff still blocked on getting interface
> properties into gobject ?

Basically. On my weekly status report, one of the items is
"- Heckle Tim Janik about properties-on-interfaces." But there
is plenty of other work that needs to be there as well.
The thing that properties-on-interfaces is blocking is anyone
else trying it out or fooling around with the code.

> >  - Color/font picker
> 
> These are done as far as I'm concerned. Should I merge them in ?

I'll take another look at them. There was that ColorButton/ColorCombo
issue, though maybe we should just ignore it and add GtkColorButton.

> >  - Disclosure triangle
> 
> This one should also be ready for merge.

I just went through and commented the implementation in detail. 
Definitely a few things to fix, but should be straightforward.

> >  - X cursor support for GTK+
> 
> I've just attached an Xcursor-based implementation to the bug and would 
> appreciate some feedback on it.

Added a couple of comments to the bug report. Generally, what you
have there looks good, though I'm not sure it's everythign we need.

> > My feeling is that we should revaluate where we are in 2 weeks
> > and see if we need to a) extend the major feature freeze a bit
> > more b) punt stuff to 2.6.
> 
> I believe that if we don't declare the things we have now as ready to
> merge and start actually merging them, we will be at exactly the same
> point in two weeks.

I wouldn't disagree. 

We seem to have procedural problems at getting from the "close" stage 
to the "committed" stage for some of these things.

Mails to gtk-devel-list of the form:

 - There is a new patch in bugzilla for bug #12345
 - The issues brought up last time were
   - A: resolved by ...
   - B: resolved by ...
   - C: ignored, because ...
 - Are we ready to commit? / I'm going to go ahead and 
   commit in a week if nobody objects. [*]

Might be a good idea

Regards,
						Owen