Vincent, Thanks for this much awaited email. I took the liberty of forwarding to gnome-i18n as we're eagerly waiting for these decisions ;)
Cheers, Djihed في ح، 21-01-2007 عند 15:57 +0100 ، كتب Vincent Untz: > Hi everybody, > > The release team had a meeting this week. Among other things, we > talked about the proposed modules for GNOME 2.18. Here are the decisions > that, in our opinion, reflect the consensus in the community. > > We would like to thank everybody who was involved in the discussion, and > also the authors/maintainers of the proposed modules. > > > Short summary > ============= > > Retracted: > GnomeScan > tracker > monodevelop > > In: > devtools suite > seahorse > nm-applet > devhelp > glade3 > > Out: > gnome-main-menu > anjuta > > Details for In & Out > ==================== > > + devtools suite > - general consensus within the community that we want this. > - we can build it with small steps, so no need to wait for a complete > solution to launch it. > - the release team hopes having the suite now will also help getting > more traction for work on the other tools that could be included in > the future. > > + seahorse > - positive feedback from the community. > - maintainers really did a fantastic job to integrate GNOME (adding > requested features, getting usability reviews, and more generally > interacting with the community). > - since seahorse and gnome-keyring-manager are sharing use cases, it > seems a good goal for GNOME 2.20 to integrate all missing features > in seahorse and deprecate gnome-keyring-manager (since seahorse is > more actively developed and maintained). This needs discussion with > developers from both modules, though. > - maintainers really did a fantastic job to integrate GNOME. We wanted > to mention it twice :-) > > + nm-applet > - positive feedback from the community. > - we don't introduce an external dependency on NetworkManager, but we > will need to mention that nm-applet needs NetworkManager (and > probably a specific version of its API) to be useful. > - from a release engineering point of view, things would be really > easier to manage if NetworkManager and nm-applet were splitted. > Maintainers are encouraged to do so before 2.18. > - the release team also encourages people to work towards integrating > the NetworkManager API in an easy-to-use way in our stack. > > + devhelp > - positive feedback from the community. > > + glade3 > - not a lot of feedback, and the feedback was mixed. > - having an interface builder in our devtools suite would be most > useful, and it appeared from the discussions that glade3 is the best > option there. > - the release team thinks it's really important that an interface > builder included in GNOME deals with the current glade files and > with the future GtkBuilder format, and the work from the glade3 > maintainers on GtkBuilder encourage us to believe that accepting it > is a safe choice. > > + gnome-main-menu > - lots of feedback, including strongly positive and strongly negative, with > the majority currently being negative. > - no consensus on how this module should be included (should it replace > the current menu? Should it only be an option?), while this question > plays a central role when considering inclusion of this module. > - main reason for rejecting gnome-main-menu is the lack of integration > of its development with the community: it is not integrated with our > main developer build tool (jhbuild), there are no release on GNOME > FTP and thus there were no releases done during this cycle, more > communication should have happened with usability people and > maintainers of other relevant modules. > - for the future, if gnome-main-menu is proposed again, it's quite > important to discuss what we want to do with the menus (what should > be the default? Do we need more than one menu layout? etc.). This is > more than about inclusion of a module like gnome-main-menu, it's > about one part of the desktop core. > > + anjuta > - the current 2.x version is in development and can't go in. > - the 1.2.x version is not maintained. We can't accept a non > maintained version in a suite. > > > Vincent > > -- > Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. > -- > devel-announce-list mailing list > devel-announce-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce-list -- Have a project you would like to be translated to Arabic? Let us know: http://wiki.arabeyes.org/Translation_requests Blog: http://djihed.com _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n