HEADS UP: GNOME 2.6 TODO list

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 18:35:58 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 04:03, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 02:33:21 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke 
>> <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > It's that time again.  We're closing in on the next major GNOME
>> > release.  There's going to be some really bitchin new changes in this
>> > release including the super-sexy (well better) GTK+ file chooser,
>> > spacial Nautilus, better icons and MIME support, faster Yelp, better
>> > volume handling for FreeBSD, some new desktop modules, and other cool
>> > stuff.
>> >
>> > This time around, we're trying to make it easy for the user to 
>> upgrade,
>> > so we've pounded out an upgrade script.  If that still causes problems
>> > for users, we will have full GNOME 2.6.0 packages for all supported
>> > versions of FreeBSD ready when 2.6.0 hits the ports tree.  Pretty 
>> nifty,
>> > eh?
>>
>> GNOME team did the awsome job on this, so thanks! :-) I will try to test
>> many stuff and others as usually.
>>
>> Do you still need someone to test on upgrade script or it's done?
>
> I think Adam has kicked the crap out of the script for port upgrades.
> Unless you can think of a bizarre GNOME 2.4 state from which you'd like
> to try and update, you should probably skip the script test.
>
> One thing we will need to test are package upgrades, though.  There is
> one known issue, and that's the buggy pkg_add on 4.9 and 5.2.1.  We need
> to get the word out to users that they have to install
> sysutils/pkg_install to do package installs on those versions.

I can try to test package upgrades on this Monday or Tuesday. Umm, let's 
see if the portupgrade will do the job with the package upgrade.

> Joe
>
>>
>> /me goes to bed...nite!

Here what I am going to do now again... ;-)

Cheers,
Mezz

>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>> > With all of that, what could we possibly need?  Well, a lot it turns
>> > out.  Here's a list of things I thought of off the top of my head:
>> >
>> > * New docs (especially an FAQ) for what's new.  One thing I know of 
>> is,
>> > "How do I switch back to the old Nautilus file browser?"  There's 
>> also,
>> > "App foo doesn't build with gtk+-2.4.  How can I fix it?"  We should 
>> be
>> > ready to go with things like that at the time of release.
>> >
>> > * More cool screenshots of 2.6 Beta in action!
>> >
>> > * GNOME 2.6 Beta users really need to test things.  I know Adam has 
>> been
>> > installing from ports like crazy, but we also need users to download
>> > packages from http://www.marcuscom.com/tinderbox/ and verify those 
>> work
>> > as well.
>> >
>> > * We need feature hunters.  If you see something missing from a 
>> module,
>> > speak up (or better yet, write a patch).
>> >
>> > * We need broken ports hunters.  If you have a favorite port that
>> > doesn't compile under GNOME 2.6 Beta, let us know (better yet, fix 
>> it).
>> >
>> > Anyone that contributes gets a heart-felt thank you in the commit 
>> notes
>> > and the HEADS UP announcement (pretty cheesy, huh?).  If anyone wants 
>> to
>> > add to this list, please do.  Let's make this release the best ever!
>> > (now that was _really_ cheesy)
>> >
>> > Marcus


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