On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 21:04 +0000, Bill Haneman wrote: > Hi Elijah, and Li: > > Since our atk, at-spi, and gail versions are all < 16, perhaps > we can and should sync the minor number with the gnome release, starting > with the next releases for gnome-2.18 beta2 and 2.16.5+ > > I don't think we need to follow what orca is doing, and sync the micro > release and major numbers too, i.e. I don't think gnome-2.19.1 should > have "atk-2.19.1", but I do agree that we should: > > 1) keep the minor number in sync with the gnome release where possible, and > 2) (implied by above) use odd minor numbers for 'unstable' releases and > even minor numbers for stable. > > Sorry that we deviated from this scheme in the past 18 months or so, we > used to use odd minor numbers for unstable but just stopped! > > Li, does this sound like the right thing to do?
It is OK to me. So I should release atk, gail and at-spi 1.17.91 for GNOME 2.18.0 Beta 2, right? Li > > best regards, > > Bill > > Elijah Newren wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I know the accessibility folks are some of the most overworked and > > understaffed (despite their huge importance to the project), so I hope > > this doesn't come across as critical. But there's a problem with > > releases that needs to be straightened out. In short, it's nearly > > impossible to tell which versions of gail/atk/at-spi are meant for > > stable and unstable releases. There might be API or other freeze > > breaks, or it may just be that the versioning system is very confusing > > and stable tarball releases aren't being made. > > > > at-spi-1.17.12 was released for gnome 2.16.1. at-spi-1.17.16 is the > > most recent version. at-spi doesn't follow GNOME version numbering, > > which is suboptimal. One would normally guess that 1.17.16 doesn't > > have any feature/ui/string/api changes or additions and thus is fine > > for the 2.16.3 release (given that only the micro version number has > > increased). However, at-spi-1.17.6 depends on atk>=1.13. (cf. > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400440). Lack of following > > GNOME versioning makes life difficult here too. The ChangeLog > > indicates that atk-1.13.x includes new API over atk-1.12.x and thus is > > not suitable for inclusion in the 2.16.3. > > > > gail has similar problems. The ChangeLog indicates that 1.9.4 was > > specifically for gnome 2.17.4 (while 1.9.3 was specifically meant for > > gnome 2.16.1), but in this case I can't tell if there were any > > api/feature/ui/string changes or additions. > > > > > > Thanks for all your hard work, > > Elijah > > _______________________________________________ > > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel _______________________________________________ Gnome-accessibility-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-devel
