4.4 ETA?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Jani Monoses wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> for the next (first?) release of xubuntu in April, we are considering
> using xfce 4.4. From what I remember reading, it was planned to be
> released sometime this winter. I know that "it's ready when it's ready"
> and it's a volunteer driver project but if you could roughly estimate
> the release date, and whether basing a distro on it in 4 months time
> sounds plausible to you I'd be thankful.

I'm pretty sure we'll have 4.4.0 out by April, but I'm not sure how much
sooner; i.e., how much testing/integration time you'd have.  I'd like to
say we'd release in February, but we're not so good with making our time
estimates ^_~.

> Alternately, since xfce seems modular enough we may just pick some 4.4
> components. Any estimates from their respective authors whether thunar,
> xfburn, orage, etc will be release quality by then? We already use
> xfdesktop 4.3 from os-works since Hoary (April 2005) and will continue
> to do so.
> 
> The intention is packaging current svn 4.3 and dropping it in current
> development ubuntu so it gets wider use. Right now it is 4.2.3.2 (same
> as debian sid)

I'd strongly suggest *not* packaging SVN in any sort of "real" release,
unless you're willing to take a snapshot at some point, and spend at
least a month of heavy testing and bugfixing on your snapshot.  If you
don't do this, not only will people complain to you about any little
instability or bug, but I'm afraid that Xfce will get a reputation as
being unstable.  And no, it doesn't help to tell people it's a
development version.  SVN works well enough for me and some other
people, but there are still bugs, and it's nowhere near widely tested
enough to be releaseable.

	-brian

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