1.8.0 release?

[Simon McVittie]

On 06/01/14 10:28, Fridrich Strba wrote:
> Sometimes last year I expressed a wish to have 1.8.0 release latest at
> the end of January so that it can be part of our SLE 12 release. Since
> then, I scrutinized bug reports that could remotely be connected to
> dbus and found only one quirk with one libvirt test after the 1.7.6
> threading changes (libvirt test was interposing the symbol
> initializing the threading called now automatically).

My opinion: interposing symbols is not a supported action, and if you do
it, you get to keep all the pieces. One day I'll work out the right
runes to make dbus link with -Bsymbolic or something in a semi-portable way.

> Would it be possible to make
> the release sometimes before FOSDEM?

I'll try to get a release-candidate out today.

    S