F14: what to do about pino / twitter

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 11:26:26AM -0400, Eric "Sparks" Christensen wrote:
> On 10/04/2010 11:13 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 11:48:07PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 16:44 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 01:19:52PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >>>> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 16:07 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>> Yeah, if we want to ship one, gwibber is pretty much the only option,
> >>>>>> since it's most likely too late to fix pino before F14 is released. The
> >>>>>> big cons about gwibber, in my opinion is the fairly poor performance
> >>>>>> I've experienced with it (tho I last used it about 2 months ago) and the
> >>>>>> number of dependencies it would pull into the livecd.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Doesn't post-Beta seem too late to do this?  Better to have people
> >>>>> simply use their browser I'd think.
> >>>>
> >>>> well, we have to make *some* kind of post-beta change here, since as I
> >>>> said the current situation blocks the release. I don't think subbing in
> >>>> gwibber for pino is a particularly scary change, all we'd have to check
> >>>> is if it goes over the size limit, and if it works, which is about half
> >>>> an hour of effort.
> >>>
> >>> Right, the uncertainty I have is really around the functionality of
> >>> the new suggested default client, as opposed to "let's not do
> >>> anything."  My preference would be a simple removal of pino for no
> >>> other reason than least disturbance of the Force.
> >>
> >> I agree that removing pino, together with a suitable note in the release
> >> notes, is the safest route at this point.
> > 
> > Adding the docs@ list to the cc so that they are aware of the need for
> > a release note for this.  Docs folks, feel free to ask questions here
> > on desktop@ as needed to figure out the best text.
> > 
> 
> So pino needs to be removed and replaced by Gwibber in the Release
> Notes?  It will be tight but I think that change can be made.  I'd
> appreciate someone to come with the text that needs to be used for this
> replacement.

What is the final decision on this, so Docs can note the change?  Pino
will be removed, but will Gwibber be replacing it or not?

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