Gnome-Office as part of GNOME?

Hi Folks,
         I've been corresponding with Jeff Waugh, (GNOME release-poobar),
regarding including new modules into gnome. My original
motivation was to get Divifund into gnome.

Jeff reseponded by asking why not have a gnome-office release timed to
coincide with the regular 6-month GNOME release?

I talked about the need to have more than 3 months development time
between releases.

Here is his response below. So as far as I can see, all we have to do is
provide pointers to our latest "stable" tarballs every time Jeff asks for
new tarballs.

I personally think this is a great idea. It has hardly any impact on our
development schedule and provides a set of reference snapshots for distros
to include in their releases.

It also gives aspiring gnome-office applications like criawps, present,
planner, mergeant, conglomerate and Divifund a reference and a level of
completeness to aspire to.

I'm perfectly happy to volenteer AbiWord stable tarballs (starting with
AbiWord-2.2.0) as a gnome-office component of the GNOME desktop and
development platform.

Are there any objections?

What do gnumeric hackers think?

Can we also do this for libgoffice?

How about gnome-DB?

Cheers

Martin

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: Proposed modules for 2.10 wanted NOW
From: "Jeff Waugh" <jdub@perkypants.org>
Date: Wed, November 3, 2004 10:57 am
To: gnome-hackers@gnome.org
Cc: "Martin Sevior" <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
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<quote who="Martin Sevior">

> Thanks for your encouragement Jeff. I would actually love to have
gnome-office components released in synch with the rest of gnome.
However in some cases we may decide to release just our current stable
builds while working on on development versions in HEAD.
>
> For the sake of the projects we can't always do 3 months head
development followed by code freeze followed by bug fixes then release.
We basically need more time to get major new functionality in place.
>
> How does this sit with the release team?

release-team will have to live with however you want to do it, and help! :-)

But I think you clinched it when you said, "in some cases we may decide to
release just our current stable builds while working on on development
versions in HEAD". That's puuuurfect.

- Jeff

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