[4223] in Release_7.7_team
Minutes of 2004-02-18 release team meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Feb 18 14:00:50 2004
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 14:00:19 -0500
Message-Id: <200402181900.i1IJ0JAj012493@equal-rites.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@mit.edu
Attending: ghudson wdc othomas zacheiss rbasch jweiss mjv aurora
1. Solaris
We discussed whether we should switch to all-OS-packages-local in the
coming release. The amount of work involved is small, but it could
create testing hassles. On the positive side, it would remove the
need to hack up Sun patches, would simplify our tools, might improve
performance a bit, and could improve customer confidence that Athena
on Solaris is a reasonable server platform.
We decided that we will do it, but Garry (rather than Bob) will take
care of that part of the work.
2. tex
RHEL 3 does not ship a tetex 2 package. We will put off our plans to
stop maintaining tetex as part of the Athena source tree.
In the coming year, improvements or bugfixes to tetex should probably
take place in a locker, so that the release version does not lose
functionality when we switch to a local package.
3. Nautilus, GNOME, etc.
We decided not to import the Nautilus gtkhtml view program, because
it's not critically important that Nautilus be able to natively
display HTML, because it's not part of mainstream GNOME, and because
in this case it's better not to offer functionality than to offer it
broken.
A user reported that sawfish is slow in the presence of the Nautilus
desktop when the focus is set to enter-exit. The default focus policy
(click) and the most common point-to-focus police (enter-only) are
fine. So we should still be okay on making the Nautilus desktop part
of the default login.
We may need to think about switching from sawfish to metacity for the
default windowmanager for the 9.4 release, to avoid being
marginalized.
