On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 06:20:14PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > > Dave Neary <dneary@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > > - Do a 2.2 release in about three months. > > > > I think that's unrealistically short at this stage. There are people > > who have said that they want to do some concrete and long-standing > > TODO items, and 6 weeks to 2 months is not enough time to get most > > of those done and debugged properly. > > IMHO we should rather try to finish what has started already and get > these new features to our users quickly. 2 months should be sufficient > to get that done. Whatever cannot be achieved in this time will have > to wait for the next release then (which could be by the end of the > year). I think so too. We should shore up the app and get it to a decent state before we really land the major new break everything features. > > One example of something which would definitely miss 2.2 if we > > release in June is libpdb. > > libpdb is being developed outside of The GIMP. As soon as it is ready > it shouldn't take more than a few days to add it as an optional > plug-in API. You cannot replace the current system with it anyway > since we don't want to break the plug-in API for 2.x. I don't think libpdb should land in 2.2, since I don't think we'll be able to nail down everything we need in a new PDB api in the timeframe, and it'd be kind of silly to land a brand new core API that'll only live for one release. -Yosh
