Xfce 4.4.1 ?

[juha]

Jani Monoses kirjoitti:
> Hi,
>
>  
>   
>> Jani Monoses wrote:
>>     
>>> Any plans on this? In xubuntu the only thing post 4.4 are the libxfce4util fixes.
>>>       
>> In that case, I'm afraid you may miss many fixes from SVN then. Why not
>> update to xfwm4 svn as suggested when you asked for it?
>>     
>
> svn is never finished and may need uploads for yet one more fix:) For instance the libxfce4util
> svn snapshot between two bugfixes in the branch caused more segfaults than before.
> I was thinking if the fixes are stable enough (in that maintainers consider them stable) a new
> release is adequate for non-ubuntu users as well.
>
> But I understand a release takes much time, unfortunately the same holds for us :( Packaging svn
> is somewhat more effort than doing it to a release, especially if it's not sure that only bugfixes
> are contained in the branch.
>
> IT would help xfce immensely IMHO if component owners could start releasing stable minor versions independent
> of a stable xfce, than have Xfce 4.4.X be a sum of the latest stables. Thunar and the larger xfce family (xfmedia,
> mousepad, xfburn) are already independent projects in that sense.
>   
Orage just started to release independent releases too.
Latest stable can be found there:
http://www.kolumbus.fi/~w408237/orage/index.html
> All core devs seem to have little time, and this is aggravated by the fact that the times they do have time do
> not overlap. This was seen in the 4.3 cycle as well. Several times when a release seemed close, someone did not
> have time to finish, so the others felt ok with starting new features, then the roles reversed.
> The panel, wm, session and desktop are very independent of each other.
>
> What do others think of such a Xorg style release process? Everyone can do it at his pace, and when the release
> managers have time they just pick the latest stables and do not need to urge or block on others.
>   
Sounds like a very good idea to me.
> As for packaging for distros it would mean latest stable code gets tested more, instead of waiting until all is
> declared stable.
>
> Jani
>
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