[Foresight-devel] Re: Foresight 1.x Plans

[Thilo Pfennig]

Am Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:52:56 -0500
schrieb Ken VanDine <ken at vandine.org>:

> My hope would be to redirect the groups in fl:1 to fl:2 shortly after
> 2.0 is released... which i hope is before GNOME 2.22 :)

Uhm, right now my estimate is that Foresight 2 has about 5 % of the
functionality of FL1. The goal was 100% - right now FL2 cant really
compete with FL1 if you look at the number of packages and also it
rather looks to be in a flow rather than in a state where one could
begin doing actual packaging besides the core stuff. The whole building
process is yet untransparent so I would fear that instead of having
100% functionality we would get a massive degression if we would really
release on AND force users to switch. I always feared that we might
ending up supporting two branches for a longer time  but now I dont
really see another way than doing just that.

So I am saying a release id Ok for me but automatically switching I
would veto as long as there hasnt been happening a massive improvement
in FL2. I also like to suggest that we could freeze 1.4.x in the 2.22
state and then give it another 6 months and then let it die - I
also would volunteer in maintaining some packages.

Maybe I am pessimistic or my vision is not that strong but i cant
imagine a stable FL2 on March 2008. But I depend on a stable system.


Thilo



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