[276] in Athena User Interface
GNOME 2.0: The incredible slipping release date.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Thu Jul 13 00:16:41 2000
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To: aui@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 00:16:33 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
For your information, this came across gnome-hackers recently. I am
not quite certain what this means for us, but it likely means we will
stick with 1.4 for 8.5. I suppose if we stick with 1.4 it means less
work.
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To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@mit.edu>
Cc: Telsa Gwynne <hobbit@aloss.ukuu.org.uk>, gnome-hackers@gnome.org
Subject: Re: LinuxTag impressions
From: Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com>
Date: 12 Jul 2000 23:46:24 -0400
Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@mit.edu> writes:
<...>
> - GNOME is a moving target. Even lurking here it is hard for me to
> get a good idea of exactly when 1.4 and 2.0 are coming out. I had
> been hoping to spend January break importing 2.0, but now it looks
> like that will miss. You really ought to do a better job a keeping
> up the road map. Athena has a very strict release schedule (one
> per year, happening in the summer), I would expect other schools
> to do something similar. We consider 4 days to be a huge slip.
> When stuff outside our control moves by months it is somewhat
> disconcerting.
>
Sadly right now the answer is "only consider already-released
releases, i.e. never plan to upgrade until a release is already out."
We're trying to make our schedules stricter, but there is strong
resistance to that in the GNOME community, and in any case there's no
way we'll ever get extremely precise. (Though we can certainly do
better, if enough people decide to care.)
To give you a rough idea, the current guesstimate for the next release
(which is 1.2 plus Nautilus and maybe Evolution), is around October.
The current guesstimate for the release after that (new development
platform) is well into 2001, probably several months at least, maybe
more depending on feature creep. Of course the date depends on the
feature set, if we do a high-speed port of GNOME to the new platform
without changing anything we can release pretty quickly, but it looks
<...>
like at least some application rewrites are planned, so that will put
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