On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:50 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > 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. Actually, I think I can fix these things by Tuesday. Stay tuned. ~spot -- Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Technical Team Lead || GPG ID: 93054260 Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices) Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my! _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
