New module decisions for 3.0

GNOME News 02.06.2010 03:45 Hi, The release team had quite some discussion in May about modules and modulesets for 3.0, and we managed to take some decisions! Many thanks to the people who contributed to the discussion on the list, and to the authors and maintainers of the proposed modules! Short summary ============= Please make sure to read the details for modules that are of interest to you, as the release team generally comments on why a module is approved or rejected, with recommendations that we'd like to see followed. Was pre-approved last cycle: - dconf Approved: - caribou - gnome-color-manager - gnome-icon-theme-symbolic - gnome-shell - gjs - gobject-introspection - libfolks - mutter - opentts / speech-dispatcher - telepathy-logger - Rygel - udev Rejected: - clutter-core - GNOME Activity Journal - libappindicator - mousetrap -- please propose again for 3.2 Removed: - gnome-speech - gok No decision needed: - deja-dup -- will be in Applications - json-glib -- clutter not approved - libsane -- simple-scan in Applications - pdfmod -- will be in Applications - simple-scan -- will be in Applications - zeitgeist -- GNOME Activity Journal not approved Some additional notes ===================== + Since we don't have HAL anymore, we need to clearly document what code needs to be ported to various platforms. See the wiki page: http://live.gnome.org/action/diff/TwoPointThirtyone/PortabilityMatrix + gir-repository is deprecated and gobject-introspection support should be moved to individual modules. + more discussion will happen for the moduleset reorganization, and we expect to see many modules moved from Desktop to Applications; some deprecated modules will also be removed from our modulesets during that work. Details ======= + caribou - replacement for gok, that is using corba - it's still at an early stage of development - some development will be funded by Andalucia in the next few months - the accessibility team is putting resources to improve caribou - some work will need to be done to properly integrate it in the overview mode of gnome-shell => approved, but we'll closely monitor the development so we can properly announce expectations to users => this means gok can be removed + clutter-core - needed for gnome-shell and other some modules - it is still not hosted on the GNOME infrastructure - the copyright assignment is still required => rejected: we keep clutter-core as an external dependency until those issues get fixed => we'd like to see the issue around copyright assignment resolved as fast as possible + deja-dup - GNOMEy application => no decision needed, should live in Applications + gjs - needed for gnome-shell - on seed vs gjs: - we don't feel we need to choose between the two now, although we believe that they need to be completely compatible in the long term if we want to keep both. - we encourage developers to keep working on gnome-js-common => approved, but with other bindings + GNOME Activity Journal - the original design idea is one we want to see happen during the GNOME 3 development. - needs more integration with the rest of the desktop and the overall GNOME design; right now, it feels too much like a standalone application. - the team might need to work a bit more closely with other GNOME teams for the integration. => rejected + gnome-color-manager - good integration => approved + gnome-icon-theme-symbolic - monochrome icons for osd and system status area => approved + gnome-shell - good feedback in general - needs more frequent releases - we'd like to see a clear roadmap of what's going to be in 3.0, and what's going to be in 3.2 - application integration in the shell: GtkApplication should enter GTK+ master next week => approved => we'll collect feedback from distributions to know what might block them to adopt it as default shell for GNOME; it's likely that it'll be drivers issues if it happens, though. + gobject-introspection - gir-repository is deprecated and gobject-introspection support should be moved to individual modules. - gobject-introspection is not going to be merged in glib right now. - it'd be useful to have a status update on where bindings stand with the use of introspection. => approved + json-glib - needed for clutter => not needed since clutter is not approved. If another module will need it for 3.0, this decision will get revisited. + libappindicator - it doesn't integrate with gnome-shell - probably depends on GtkApplication, and would need integration in GTK+ itself. - we wished there was some constructive discussion around it, pushed by the libappindicator developers; but it didn't happen. - there's nothing in GNOME needing it. => rejected for the reasons stated above + libfolks - will help implement highly-requested features => approved, but we want to point out that we need stable tarballs of libfolks to use it as an external dependency + libsane - needed for simple-scan => not needed since simple-scan will be dealt as Applications. + mousetrap - interesting accessibility tool - it might change quite a bit, especially with a potential merge with opengazer - might not be completely ready, but good work is going on => rejected for 3.0, but we encourage the mousetrap team to keep working on it, to see what can be done with opengazer and to propose it again for 3.2. + mutter - needed for gnome-shell => approved + opentts / speech-dispatcher - opentts development might fold back in speech dispatcher - we trust the choice of the accessibility team here - orca can already use speech-dispatcher => approved => we encourage the opentts team to work with the speech dispatcher people to avoid the fork if possible. => this means gnome-speech can be removed + pdfmod - GNOMEy application => no decision needed, should live in Applications + Rygel - works well, and is a nice thing to have nowadays - UI will be merged with gnome-user-share at some point => approved + simple-scan - GNOMEy application => no decision needed, should live in Applications + telepathy-logger - will be used by all applications displaying messages from IM - especially useful for IM integration in GNOME Shell => approved + udev - it actually already is a dependency in various modules - this is a linux-only dependency => approved => to help non-Linux platforms, we'll provide a portability matrix to list the modules where platform-specific work is needed + zeitgeist - needed for GNOME Activity Journal => not needed since GNOME Activity Journal is not approved. If another module will need it for 3.0, this decision will get revisited. Thanks, Vincent

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