[Gpe-list] [RFC] Coupling GPE release cycle with gnome release cycle

[Koen Kooi]

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Hi,

What do you think of making gpe releases at the same time gnome does a release? And more
importantly, use the same versions as gnome does. I'm not proposing to use the same rigid
freeze cycle and deadlines like gnome has, but to release a gpe version (2.16, 2.18) each
6 months, so distribution know when to package, and more importantly, what to package.

Related to that, I propose to bring some unification into the package versions. Right now
you have to have followed gpe development pretty closely to know where API changes
happened, and what packages are affected. My proposal is to bump the core libs and
applications (gpe-pim, gpe-conf) to 2.17.x in svn and start doing snapshot releases like
gnome does.

The end result should be an easier to understand platform which is easily buildable by
third parties.

What do you think?

regards,

Koen

PS: if you think 'gnome' is a bad word, replace it with 'ubuntu' to get the same idea
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