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

[Florian Boor]

Hi,

Koen Kooi schrieb:
> 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.

basically i like the idea of these release cycles but concerning GPE i don't
think that the current development progress justifies these kind of releases. I
guess too many things would just stay the same... even if they are developed
further - think about gpe-calendar which is actively developed for quite some
time now but not released for a long time.

> 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.

Basically a good idea too but the same problem: The GPE project is too small to
get major benefit from this right now.

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

That's true - its definitely something to desire, but before we can introduce
something like this we need to be in a situation that we can make these release
cycles and naming schemes useful. At first that would mean to have more active
development power and the introduction of rules that make sure application
changes are released before the GPE release for testing.

Greetings

Florian

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