Re: [Gaim-devel] Kill v2_0_0 branch?

[Stu T. <st...@no...>]

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 14:10 -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> Kevin M Stange spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > I think we should consider what's different between the two and whether
> > we want those differences in the next release.  The only things I can
> > think of are the efficiency changes and gntgaim off the top of my head.
> >  Is there anything else in trunk that's not in branch?  Of those,
> > anything that we don't want (or isn't mature/ready enough to be) in Gaim
> > 2.0.0?

Here's a quick summary of what's missing from the v2_0_0 branch:

 - QQ protocol
 - gntgaim
 - GtkBlist efficiency improvements
 - Tcl Status support (and other Tcl updates)
 - Some notify API changes
 - libgadu _exit fix
 - libxml2 / jabber crash fix
 - MSN sync issue fix
 - some autoresponse change (presumably a bugfix)
 - Accept: */* for gaim_url_fetch()

I think we'd want most of those in 2.0.0b4

> We may even want to branch for 2.0.0b4 or 2.0.0 -- e.g. to not include
> gntgaim, which can't be built anyway because there is not yet a
> libgaim target.  The issue at hand, however, is whether it should be
> more like the existing v2_0_0 branch, or more like trunk.  I believe
> it should be more like trunk, as the v2_0_0 branch is basically trunk
> minus bugfixes at this point.  ;-)

The 2 things that I think may not be ready for inclusion in 2.0.0 are QQ
and gntgaim, though I admit to knowing nothing about their readiness
really. If they are not ready to be included would we really need a
branch, or should we just exclude them from the relevant
SUBDIRS/DIST_SUBDIRS ?

If it wasn't clear, I'm in favor of killing the v2_0_0 branch and
releasing from trunk.

Regards,


Stu.