Xfce 4.10 entering planning phase

[Jérôme Guelfucci]

On 17/01/11 18:57, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On lun., 2011-01-17 at 16:34 +0100, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>
>> To be honest, I don't think this schedule is realistic. Like with 4.8,
>> we'll probably have to lengthen the development phase by a few months.
>
> Yup agreed.
>>
>
>> Release Team
>> ============
>>
>> The positions to assign are:
>>
>>    - Release Manager
>>    - Release Assistants
>>    - QA Official
>>
>> Detailed job descriptions can be read in the Planning Phase section of
>> the release model. It's always a good idea to elect active contributors
>> and core developers into the Release Manager and QA Official positions.
>>
>> I have quite a number of personal changes ahead of me, so I'm not
>> running for Release Manager again in the 4.10 cycle. I would however be
>> happy to help as QA Official.
>>
>> Nick and I shared the Release Manager role in the 4.8 cycle and he's
>> actively hacking and efficient at the same time, so in my view that
>> makes him a good candidate for this position. Any objections or other
>> suggestions?
>>
>> Jerome did a remarkable job as Release Assistant in 4.8. It'd be lovely
>> to have him on board once again.
>
> I didn't really do a remarkable job as release assistant in 4.8, largely
> because I didn't sync with Jerome and thus didn't really know what to do
> in which time (though I was able to do quick packaging tests during the
> pre* releases).
>>
>> Anyone volunteering for any of the positions? Any other suggestions?
>
> I can run again, trying to be a bit more present.
>>
>>
>> Dependencies
>> ============
>>
>> Essential dependencies are dependencies that are required by at least
>> one core component. We don't really have a complete list yet but it
>> would be nice to have one. GTK+, GLib are obvious but there are more.
>
> Speaking of GTK+, 2 or 3?
>

Hey guys,

I don't have time to go into details at the moment, will be able in 10 days.

I'm running again for release assistant, will try to help more too.

And re GTK, I vote for Gtk+ 2. While Gtk+3 would surely bring nice 
features, I will not spend another cycle trying to make stuff which 
works fine (more or less) work with another lib as we did for xfconf, 
libxfce4ui... We should actually implement some interesting stuff, fix 
annoying stuff and stop fighting with API for a while. At least that's 
my point of view, I think we spent a huge amount of time with "platform" 
work which brought 0 visible changes. This also cleaned the code base, 
which is nice, but it's time to build upon this work to work on 
interesting stuff.

So I say, let's keep Gtk+ 3 for another time.

Jérôme