Re: GNUstep Code Freeze

[Fred Kiefer]

I had forgotten about these myself. Please remember to re-enable them 
after the release until we move them into services.

Fred

On 30.01.2012 22:07, Eric Wasylishen wrote:
> I forgot about the ImageMagick/ghostscript image reps - IIRC we agreed to 
> disable them for this release? I just did so. GSGhostscriptImageRep is removed 
> from the build, but ImageMagick is just disabled by default in the configure 
> script.
>
> Eric
>
> On 2012-01-29, at 2:49 PM, Fred Kiefer wrote:
>
> > I would like to collect some feedback on the current state.
> > Are there any bugs still open that would block making a release? That would be 
> > really serious bugs that stop a critical GNUstep application from working, 
> > definitely worked in the last release and cannot be worked around in some way.
> >
> > As for the ICU locale issue we have the work around to not use ICU for people 
> > with other languages, that should give them about the fallback that they had in 
> > previous base releases.
> >
> > As for the gui bugs, I am under the impression that we wont be able so fix much 
> > more for this release. But a lot of testing is still going on.
> >
> > Adam, are you willing to prepare this release again?
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > On 20.01.2012 00:27, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> > > In order to get a full GNUstep release out before FOSDEM, that is at
> > > least base/gui/back, maybe also make, Richard, Eric and I have decided
> > > to put a code freeze for these libraries in place. Only strict bug fixes
> > > should go into the code over the next week (or maybe a bit longer) and
> > > everybody should try to find time to test the current code on as many
> > > different machines as possible.
> > >
> > > There hasn't been a gui release in almost a year and now seems as good a
> > > time as ever. Feel free to report any bugs you find on the mailing list
> > > or even better in the bug tracker on Savannah.