[Telepathy] Stable-branches for use with GNOME 3.6

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Le lundi 17 septembre 2012 à 15:28 +0100, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> We generally do a round of stable-branches close to each GNOME release
> and recommend them for use by distributions that sync up with GNOME
> (mainly Ubuntu and Fedora). It's about time we did that again.

Thanks for taking care of this Simon. Let me know if I can help with the
releases.


> I think my recent account storage yak-shaving
> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54870 and so on; 62
> commits) has missed the boat for 5.14, and should not go in until 5.15.

Fine with me.

> If we're happy to carry around an extra 50-100 lines of code in 5.15 (to
> read from more past locations), we could merge
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35896 (already reviewed) to
> put Mission Control accounts in XDG_DATA_DIRS. Or, we could skip this
> for 5.14 and proceed directly to a more sensible storage format in 5.15,
> when my 62-commit megabranch has been merged. Thoughts?

XDG config dir is a GNOME 3.6 goal
( https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/XDGConfigFolders ) so it would be
nice to have this. Looks like Jonny reviewed most of this already, if he
doesn't have time to finish the review, please point me to the remaining
patches and I'll take a look.

> telepathy-glib
> ==============
> 
> We'll need a telepathy-glib 0.20 so MC 5.14 and Empathy 3.6 can depend
> on it. I don't think there's anything new that particularly needs merging.

nod.

> Connection managers
> ===================
> 
> Is there anything compelling in connection managers that means we
> desperately need to stable-branch again, or are we OK with keeping the
> versions from GNOME 3.4 as recommended by 3.6 too?
> 
> Ubuntu and Fedora are still on Gabble 0.16, so they obviously don't see
> anything particularly vital about 0.17.

Comparing 0.16 and 0.17 NEWS files, it may be interesting to have:
- Implement WLM jidlookup. This makes possible to add MSN contacts using
XMPP.
- Fix google caps parsing  (not sure if this one has been backported)


> telepathy-farstream 0.4.0 is still current for everyone who uses
> Farstream 0.1 and GStreamer 0.x.
> 
> Do we want a 0.6.0 for use in conjunction with Farstream 0.2 and
> GStreamer 1.0, or are we just going to recommend 0.5.0 for those who
> live on the edge?

GStreamer 1.0 support is going to be experimental in Empathy 3.6 (not
enabled by default) so I don't think it's worth having a stable tp-fs
for this.



	G.