FYI.
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Hi,
The release team met on Sunday to talk about the latest movies, the
forthcoming Australian Open, etc. but also to make fun of Andreas N. (we
won't reveal his last last name publicly -- but he's swedish and draws
various things). Hopefully, Andreas N. didn't notice that and he will
continue to be helpful :-) Oh, we also discussed the new modules
proposals and came to the following result.
Many thanks to the people who contributed to the discussion on the list,
and to the authors and maintainers of the proposed modules!
Short summary
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In:
brasero (desktop suite)
evolution-mapi (desktop suite)
gnome-user-share (desktop suite)
DeviceKit-power (external dependency)
farsight2 (external dependency)
libgda (external dependency)
libical (external dependency)
libmapi (external dependency)
libnotify (external dependency)
libproxy (external dependency)
Mono.Addins (external dependency)
pulseaudio (external dependency)
unique (external dependency)
Moved:
intltool (from platform to external dependency)
Out:
libseed
WebKit/GTK+
Out, but because they are not external dependencies strictly speaking:
notification-daemon
samba4
Removed:
gnome-volume-manager (replaced by nautilus, etc.)
nautilus-cd-burner (replaced by brasero)
Details
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+ brasero (desktop)
- mixed feelings in the community and in the release team
- reactive development team
- directly conflicts with nautilus-cd-burner feature-wise, so if
accepted, nautilus-cd-burner has to be deprecated
- fills a need that has been felt by many users
- used by default on several distributions already
= approved
= nautilus-cd-burner is therefore deprecated
+ DeviceKit-power (external dependency)
- needed for the new gnome-power-manager
= approved
+ evolution-mapi (desktop)
- depends on libmapi, which depends samba4
- libmapi 0.8.0 will be released in the next few days
- provides support for exchange 2007 (which evolution-exchange
doesn't do)
- some features might not be ready for 2.26 (Password Expiry, Send
Options, Out-of-Office)
- possible to choose between evolution-exchange and evolution-mapi at
runtime
= approved
We'll keep evolution-exchange in 2.26 if possible, to avoid
regressions for people who do not require exchange 2007 support.
+ farsight 2 (external dependency)
- needed for empathy
- will make it possible to offer good VoIP support
= approved
+ gnome-user-share (desktop)
- no documentation
- Bastien wants one capplet to cover vino gnome-user-share
preferences (would live in gnome-control-center). This is not
required for 2.26, but would still be nice if possible.
- hard depends on libnotify, but looks easy to make this dependency
optional.
= approved
Even though this was not a blocker, the release team would like to
see some effort towards writing documentation.
+ libgda (external dependency)
- needed for anjuta
- mixed about libgda vs sqlite: some release team people feel that
anjuta needs would be satisfied with sqlite which is already an
external dependency
- the symbol db plugin could be optional
- switching anjuta to sqlite probably requires some non-negligible
effort
= approved
It'd be nice to have someone write a small wiki page to help
people choose between libgda and sqlite.
+ libical (external dependency)
- needed to remove the fork from evolution-data-server
- less duplication is good
= approved
+ libmapi (external dependency)
- needed for evolution-mapi
- see evolution-mapi rationale
= approved
+ libnotify (external dependency)
- widely used
- would be nice to have a more active development
- feature that should live in GTK+ in the future (when dbus can be
used there)
= approved
The release team wants to stress out that it should really not be
abused (as it tends to be).
+ libproxy (external dependency)
- needed for libsoup
= approved
+ libseed (external dependency)
- one game in gnome-games uses it
- too early to know how used it will be, and how the community reacts
from a libseed vs gjs point of view
- good to see libseed and gjs developers talk about making things
compatible
= rejected
+ Mono.Addins (external dependency)
- needed to remove the version bundled with tomboy
- less duplication is good
= approved
+ notification-daemon (external dependency)
- not really a build-time dependency, so not strictly needed
- still use libsexy
- would be nice to have a more active development
- would be nice to see the new development going on after the
discussion in December
- libnotify has API to detect the capabilities of a running
notification daemon
= rejected, but because it's orthogonal to our external dependencies
(it's like apache for
