On Wednesday 30 August 2006 09:39, Rex Dieter wrote: > >> As for the applications that depend on motif, I say we do the following: > >> > >> 1) Announce that openmotif will be dropped in X days, weeks. > >> 2) Provide information o lesstif as the alternative. > >> 3) Maintainers of packages that have motif dependencies have the same X > >> days, or weeks to fix their applications to work with lesstif > >> 4) Drop openmotif after the time period has elapsed > >> 5) Deal with any unfixed packages at that time. > > > > I like this plan a lot. It sets deadlines and expectations properly. > > openmotif just needs to go away. > > > > So who can make said announcement? > > I can be play the bad-cop here. Question is, how long of a deadline for > step 1? Is 2 weeks enough? This is exactly my proposal. Test3 freeze is on the 5th of Sept, and that's a little too soon. While I don't like "shipping" yet another "release" with openmotif, I think its unreasonable to expect these things to be fixed by Tuesday. October 2nd is the final development freeze, and that seems like a good cutoff point to me. -- Jesse Keating Release Engineer: Fedora
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