[compiz] Release plans

[Sam Spilsbury]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> So I'd like to start with an update saying that we've hit a pretty big
> milestone in our 0.9.0 plans for world domination - that is that the
> last plugin, DBus, has finally been ported and works. [1] The code is
> currently undergoing review, and once some inconsistencies are fixed
> up, it looks set for inclusion into master.
>
> This means that along with this, a 2D GTK Window decorator, git
> changes amongst other things we are extremely close to fufilling our
> release criteria for an unstable 0.9.0.
>
> So we need to sort out the logistics of a release.
>
> I have written a release announcement that can be found on GObby. Feel
> free to edit it, it's probably not perfect by any stretch of the
> imagination. The next thing we need to sort out is making sure all the
> branches have been swapped over and that everything can be found in
> /compiz on git. We also need to update the main page and the wiki to
> take into account that the 0.9 branch is the one that everyone doing
> development or testing should be using. I will handle publicity
> related stuff.
>
> There are only a few more bugs that need to be fixed before a release
> is all good, namely:
>
> 1. The initial stacking bug has come back again :(
> 2. Bug with GTK Window Decorator where reloading the decor plugin will
> cause ti to fail
> 3. Windows disappearing when they change their title / size. I think
> this was introduced only recently, so I can probably bisect to find
> out what caused it and revert that commit.

One thing I forgot to add on top of this is that we need to merge in
Kristopher Ive's documentation changes, but this should be trivial.

>
> Congrats everyone for staying on board and once we get 0.9.0 out of
> the way, we can truly say that 1.3+ years of rather boring work
> rewriting code is out of the way.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Sam
>
> [1] http://git.compiz.org/~smspillaz/dbus
>
> --
> Sam Spilsbury
>



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Sam Spilsbury