Re: The upcoming Gnome 3.6 won´t make it to F18 :-/

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Mon Aug 13 08:28:35 UTC 2012


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> 
> On 08/12/2012 08:04 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
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> Due to release schedules, it seems obvious to me that F18 will not
> include the upcoming Gnome 3.6 which will go into beta in a week,
> but will be released by late September.
> I don't know that that is likely.
> 
> Aside from the fact that Mathias didn't submit the SuperFeature for
> 3.6 (I let him know yesterday that it looks like he forgot to move
> it over to featurereadyforwrangler) - it looks like it is coming
> along.
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome3.6

Ah, I see it, it wasn't submitted to me and I missed it. There was
already F18 schedule change to match both schedules to work together.

I'll ping Matthias and FESCo for late Gnome feature approval.

R.
 
> 
> Both Gnome and Fedora are on time-based schedules - and have been
> running parallel to each other for many, many releases - their beta
> hits before our alpha, their hard code freeze (no new code, fixes
> only) hits before our beta change deadline/features 100% complete
> deadline, so basically anything after both their hard code freeze
> and our 100%/beta deadline is all going to be bugfixes, and the
> gnome folks do a decent job of keeping fedora in close sync with
> upstream. So apart from "no feature page" I don't really see any
> reason why 3.6 wouldn't make it (aside from unforeseen disaster),
> unless there is something major and traumatic that I have missed :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> One of the much anticipated features in Gnome 3.6 is Skydrive support
> in addition to Google Docs files.
> 
> So the $1M question is... how difficult is it to create RPMs of Gnome
> 3.6 beta to run atop F18 (when released).
> Is there a "fire-and-forget" build script that an end user (not dev)
> like me can use?
> 
> Or is there any Fedora dev routinely offering beta-level Gnome
> packages for Fedora?
> The feature page says that 3.5.4 (which is basically "development of
> 3.6" - AIUI they flip the switch to the 3.6 number as soon as a
> release candidate from 3.5.9x is declared awesome) is in rawhide.
> 
> -robyn
> 
> 
> 
> Just curious... ;) I guess I can´t wait for 2013 to run F19 with
> Gnome 3.6 ;)
> 
> FC
> 
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