Gnome release cycle (was Re: Rhythmbox Instability)

[James "Doc" Livingston]

On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 09:45 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> This is weird: hasn't Gnome 2.14 already been released as "stable"? Is
> something going wrong with the release cycle?

Despite popular opinion to the contrary, Rhythmbox isn't part of the
official gnome desktop, and doesn't follow the Gnome 6-month release
cycle. There was some discussion about starting to follow it a few
months ago, but everyone forgot about it in the intervening time.


Currently Rhythmbox doesn't have a stable-unstable branch split, which
means that 0.9.x releases have new features. While the features get
testing from people building cvs, they aren't tarball-release tested, so
inevitably have a few bugs.

I'm hoping to get a stable-development split soon (possibly going to the
Gnome release cycle for 2.16) but we'll have to wait and see. Some of
the major bug fixes require what are essentially new features (although
not user-visible), which makes things complicated.


Cheers,

James "Doc" Livingston
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