[desktop-discuss] GNOME 2.16 approved for integration into Nevada

Leontine Binchy Leo.Binchy at Sun.COM
Wed Sep 6 04:00:07 PDT 2006


Excellent great work all around now lets get these stoppers off our plate

Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey,
>
> We got approval from ARC today for inclusion of GNOME 2.16 into Nevada. I've put
> up the case materials here -
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2006/462/functional_spec/
>
> for anyone who wants a read. There are some additional materials referenced in
> that document which aren't as interesting - however, if you'd like to see them,
> please let me know.
>
> The current plan is for integration around build 50, but that's just an
> approximate date of when that might happen - there's heaps more work to do, and
> we still need a final 2.16 set of packages from GNOME.
>
> FWIW, still no concrete discussion about putting a newer version of the desktop
> into an update. It was discussed briefly at ARC, and some of the underlying
> issues that we would need to address would be HAL backported - something which
> may not be feasible.
>
> Hopefully though, we can now focus on making the desktop a better place and get
> some of the outstanding issues and bugs addressed - first things first, who's
> had a chance to try out the beta SVN repository?
>
>
> Glynn
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