F14: what to do about pino / twitter

[Eric "Sparks" Christensen]

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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.

- --Eric
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