Re: RFC: future develpment/release strategy

From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 09:57:23 EDT

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    Hi guys,

    GTK2 will (*must*, actually) be ready for the next release, especially
    if someone helps me out a little bit. You all know (or can read back
    through the archives) what main sticking points are left. A GNOME2 port,
    well, I'll need to find more free time I suppose, esp. since I'm not
    very interested in doing this work.

    Cuenca - merge in your Xft stuff with HEAD and commit. I or Hub will
    merge the GTK2 work with HEAD shortly afterwords.

    Dom

    On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 05:22, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
    > I wonder in light of Joaquin's work (see my posting to the "more Xft
    > stuff" thread), and would like feedback from the whole team, whether
    > we might not need to have two development branches; one a
    > continuation of the 1.x line; this would contain Martin's table code,
    > Joaquin's xft code, footnotes and endnotes code and similar, and
    > lead toward and intermediate 1.2 release. The second developement
    > branch would lead to 2.0 release eventually, and would contain the
    > Pango/gtk2 stuff.
    >
    > My main reason for this suggestion is that it will take a while before
    > we have a 2.0 release with the Pango stuff; things are moving along
    > slower than I have been hoping. However, much work has been
    > done already that could eventually be released in an intermediate
    > release, and it would be pitty to hold it back for many months just
    > because other changes are not yet finished. So, I think the best way
    > would be to brach present head into 1.x and 2.x development
    > branches. The present stable would be left as is at present for
    > bugfixes only, and after the 1.2 release would be replaced with
    > stable 1.2 branch. The 2.x-dev would be Pango-enabled and gtk2
    > dependant, so we could remove the #ifdef WITH_PANGO defines as
    > soon as the Pango code provides basic functionality, while 1.x-dev
    > would be Pango-less, gtk1 based, so that all the existing Pango code
    > would be removed from it.
    >
    > If we agreed this was a good idea, the question remains which
    > should be the head (I would prefer the Pango/gtk2 branch, as it
    > would be heading toward the next major release), and what
    > procedure would be used to for maintaining the non-head dev
    > branch. The easiest would probably be that each developer would be
    > responsible to commit all changes to both branches when
    > applicable, although, we might want to have a formal maintainer, who
    > would be sent patches.
    >
    > I am eager to hear you thoughts guys.
    >
    > Tomas

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    Dom Lachowicz <doml@appligent.com>
    




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