All,
I am sponsoring this fast track for the Desktop team lead
by Matt Keenan, Dave Lin and Evan Yan from Dublin Ireland
and Beijing China. The case directory includes this
proposal, man pages, package maps, gtk-docs, interface
table, module diffs, module comparisons and committed API
change list. I have set the timeout for Friday, August 15th,
2008.
This case updates Gnome to version 2.24 following the
community. The only deviations from the Gnome community
revolve around some components using a GPLv3 license.
In this case the project will not be shipping these components
until such time as Legal has approved the license. When
that happens the project team will submit another fast
track to include the changes based upon the change in
status. The project team is requesting a Minor
release binding.
Thanks,
John
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GNOME 2.24 ARC Proposal
Date: Jun 19th, 2008 Evan Yan <evan.yan at sun.com>
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1. Introduction
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1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
GNOME 2.24
1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
Matt Keenan (matt.keenan at sun.com)
Dave Lin (dave.lin at sun.com)
Evan Yan (evan.yan at sun.com)
1.3. Email Aliases:
1.3.1. Responsible Manager: leo.binchy at sun.com
paul.mei at sun.com
harry.lu at sun.com
helen.wang at sun.com
1.3.2. Responsible Engineer: matt.keenan at sun.com
dave.lin at sun.com
evan.yan at sun.com
irene.huang at sun.com
brian.cameron at sun.com
1.3.3. Marketing Manager: Glynn.Foster at Sun.COM
1.3.4. Interest List: desktop-cteam at sun.com
accessprogramoffice at sun.com
trusted-jds at sun.com
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2. Project Summary
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2.1. Project Description
This project continues on LSARC 2008/207 to provide a newer version of
GNOME, as part of the Java Desktop System (JDS), targeted for Nevada.
More formally, this project will integrate GNOME 2.24 along with some
other components that aren't currently part of the official community
release.
2.2. Risks and Assumptions
2.2.1. Schedule
This project is targeted to be bundled with Nevada, with an intended
integration date of Nevada build 99 (09/08/08), of the current Solaris
OS release schedule. This is for a minor release only.
2.2.2. Accessibility
Accessibility is still a key concern in the GNOME desktop.
Although the community has realized the importance of A11Y, and has
contributed a great deal to the project, the core parts of the desktop
may not be fully accessible. The project team is adding resources
according to need and associating time to market schedules.
2.2.3. GPL Licensed Libraries
The following issues are associated with GPL libraries (please find the
proposed rule about GPL license libraries here:
http://webhome.sfbay/OFR/GPL-LGPLArchRules.html)
1. No LGPL'd libraries should be depending on GPL'd libraries.
2. GPL'd libraries should not be shipped in standard path.
3. Change "GPLv2 or later" to "GPLv2".
About the first issue,
This issue occurs when a non-GPL (e.g. LGPL) library links against a
GPL library. The investigation shows that libgtop is still shipped and
libgtop is not depended on by LGPL'd libraries (dependencies include
/usr/bin/baobab and /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor).
About the second issue,
The GPL rules are still being discussed. We will make sure that new
projects with GPL'd libraries are not depended by non-GPL'd libraries.
About the third issue,
This is a legal issue, and not an ARC issue. We include this
information here only for reference.
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3. Technical Description
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This project will build on the base we built with "LSARC 2008/207
GNOME 2.22", and provide a newer version of the GNOME desktop into
Nevada.
The GNOME Project's focus on users and usability continues in GNOME 2.24
with its hundreds of bug fixes and user-requested improvements. This
project provides many usability improvements, performance tunings,
improved configuration, and updated branding. More details on specific
improvements can be found on the GNOME community release notes [not
yet released]
- http://www.gnome.org/start/2.24/notes/
Currently, the GNOME 2.24 draft release note is available at:
- http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyFour/ReleaseNotes
Where possible, we will coordinate with those components that are
shipped as part of the official GNOME community release. JDS may
deviate from the GNOME community release, but only where there is an
appropriate business justification or engineering impact.
3.1. Interface classification summary.
3.1.1. Changes of Committed interfaces
Refer to manpages [5].
Minor changes are introduced in GNOME 2.24 for
Committed Libraries changes
---------------------------
o libgdk-x11-2.0
o libgdk_pixbuf-2.0
o libglib-2.0
o libgtk-x11-2.0
o libpango-1.0
o libpangocairo-1.0
Committed CLIs changes
----------------------
None.
Committed Configuration Files
-----------------------------
None.
Other changes that are included
-------------------------------
None.
Please refer to ./interface-table.txt [3] for details.
3.1.2. New Components
New components have been ARC-ed in separate ARC cases.
Refer to Section 4 Other related ARC Cases.
3.1.3. Removed Components
The following are old components to be removed from the desktop release.
- gnome-freedb-libs
Unused component and functionality replaced by musicbrainz.
3.2. Interface tables
Interface tables can be found in [3].
Refer to the modulediffs [1] report for a list of modules which
have been updated to a new version.
Please refer to the gtk-docs [6] that are installed to the system
with this release of the JDS desktop.
Changes to packaging are highlighted in the pkgcmp report. [2] The
case materials also includes the list of related pkgmap files for
all installed packages. [7]
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4. Reference Documents
======================
GNOME Public Websites:
http://www.gnome.org/
http://developer.gnome.org/
FreeDesktop Website:
http://www.freedesktop.org/
GNOME 2.24 Release Notes:
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.24/notes/
http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyFour/ReleaseNotes
External Dependencies of GNOME 2.23.x
http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointTwentyThree/ExternalDependencies
JDS Engineering Internal Website:
http://jds.ireland/
Other Related ARC Cases:
LSARC 2008/452 avant-window-navigator for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/451 Gqview for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/450 Transmission for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/449 Bluefish for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/447 slocate for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/446 dialog for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/445 gtkspell for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/430 gnome-keyring
LSARC 2008/426 Clutter for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/425 GNU Troff (groff)
PSARC 2008/419 Python Notify
LSARC 2008/417 gnome-commander for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/415 contact-lookup-applet for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/414 tsclient for Opensolaris
PSARC 2008/405 Removal of /usr/openwin
LSARC 2008/390 libtasn1 for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/389 presto phase II
LSARC 2008/385 Xsane
LSARC 2008/375 Meta Tracker - A Desktop Search Tool
LSARC 2008/354 Libgcrypt update
LSARC 2008/346 W3M
LSARC 2008/345 libgsf
LSARC 2008/341 GnuTLS Update
LSARC 2008/338 Update GNU M4 to 1.4.9
PSARC 2008/294 Xorg driver selection based on VIS_GETIDENTIFIER
LSARC 2008/287 Update of Adobe Acrobat plugin and reader to 8.2.1
LSARC 2008/262 GNOME shutdown dialog
LSARC 2008/239 NumPy - Numeric Python
LSARC 2008/207 Gnome 2.22
LSARC 2008/454 Planner: Project management tool for the GNOME Desktop
LSARC 2008/459 Songbird for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/464 Openproj for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/471 o3read for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/472 cdrdao for OpenSolaris
LSARC 2008/476 wxWidgets: Cross-Platform GUI Library
LSARC 2008/477 XChat IRC client
LSARC 2008/479 GNOME Netstatus Applet Wifi Support
LSARC 2008/481 Irssi for OpenSolaris
References:
[1] ./modulediffs.txt
[2] ./pkgcmp/
[3] ./interface-table.txt
[4] ./committed-API-changes.txt
[5] ./manpages
[6] ./gtk-docs
[7] ./pkgmaps
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5. Resources and Schedule
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5.1. Projected Availability
This project will be included in Solaris Nevada and OpenSolaris.
5.2. Cost of Effort
Refer to the PLC documentation which includes P&L for the project.
5.3. Cost of Capital Resources
Refer to the PLC documentation which includes P&L for the project.
5.4. ARC review type: [Standard/FastTrack/SelfReview]
FastTrack
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6. Prototype Availability
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6.1. Prototype Availability
Development versions of GNOME 2.24 are available here:
http://dlc.sun.com/osol/jds/downloads/current/
6.2. Prototype Cost
The JDS team works to provide the latest desktop stack in development
so that people internally can have access to the latest code for testing
and early access to new features. These builds are also used by the
desktop team for doing ongoing development and testing. Therefore, the
cost of providing the these "prototype" builds are a part of the cost
the development team requires to provide the next release of GNOME into
Solaris. Since much of the desktop stack is developed externally, the
cost of development is shared by many organizations, including Sun.
