On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 08:55:10AM -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Olav Vitters <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 08:29:41AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >> First, Kalev and Richard are merging Kalev's work on moving codec (and
> >> font, mime-handler, etc) installation support from gnome-packagekit to
> >> gnome-software. This will let us drop gnome-packagekit for good. This
> >> affects gnome-software, PackageKit, gstreamer and totem. Merging is
> >> underway for this.
> >
> > Does gnome-software really work on anything other than Fedora? I'm going
> > to push for this on Mageia, but think we need to do a bit more outreach.
> > Further, probably need to inform distribution-list that they need to get
> > gnome-software working.
> 
> I belive it works fine in openSUSE.  RPM based distros seem to be
> fine, but I can't speak for Debian.  Arch for sure, it doesn't work
> and thus Arch users are getting a major regression of not being able
> to use gnome-software to manage software groups and so forth.  I
> understand that work is continuing for integration.

Ehr? Mageia is an RPM based distribution, it does not work. So before
breaking some distribution they need to be pre-warned. This I asked for.

> >> Next, there is the rewrite of the gnome-shell theme into sass by Jakub
> >> and Carlos Soriano.
> > [..]
> >> I'm fairly confident that we'll ge the codec install merging done
> >> today, but gnome-shell may need an extra day or so to sort out the
> >> branches. Given that we've already punted on the notification redesign
> >> once, I think we should try to get this in for 3.16.
> >
> > Feature based releases is bad, but 3.16 would be boring without it, so
> > think it is nice.
> >
> 
> I think people will be disappointed if we let notifications slip
> another release.

Release team is not the engagement team. This discussion is on the
release team list. There are different considerations.

-- 
Regards,
Olav
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