releases

[Christian Dywan]

Am Fri, 4 Jun 2010 17:47:14 -0400
schrieb Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org>:

> On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Lennart Poettering
> <mzqohf at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> > Heya,
> >
> > D-Bus appears kinda stuck right now, with 1.3 moving in glacial
> > speed only. To get the ball rolling again and because nobody seems
> > to step up for this I plan to roll a release in two weeks from
> > today. Please get your stuff into the tree until then, otherwise
> > I'll do the release anyway and pass the blame for changing APIs on
> > to you.
> 
> A 1.3 release is OK I guess, but the important thing is deciding what
> exactly will make the cut for a stable 1.4, among:
> 
> * Negotiation in the protocol
>   * File descriptor passing (before or after header proposal)
> * Maybe types
> * MacOS X merging
> * Win32 release engineering (do we ship a binary, etc.)
> * Thread safety changes (incl. compatibility concerns)

I would like to see the negotiation changes and Maybe types in 1.4
because the current negotiation is completely unflexible. Those
go intuitively hand in hand I think, so it makes a lot of sense to me,
in terms of having 2 types to actually make use of the more flexible
negotiation. That said, if it is clearly voted against, I am also
willing to work on negotiation without Maybe.
I am willing to jump on it, if we decide how to proceed.

See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27857

-- 
ciao,
    Christian