[virt-tools-list] [virt-viewer] plan for 3.0 release and dropping GTK2 support

[Jonathon Jongsma]

On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 16:19 +0100, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > We made the last release (v2.0) way back in Jan this year. There are plenty
> > of patches accumulated in GIT since then, so we're way overdue for making
> > a new release.
> 
> Agreed!
> 
> > 
> > Thus I'd suggest that we plan to make a v3.0 release in 1 week time on
> > Wed Dec 2nd.  With that in mind any pending patches should be reviewed
> > and merged in the next few days.
> 
> I'd like to ask for 2 weeks (and then have the release done on Wed Dec 9th).
> The reason for that is I have to go through the dependencies for
> mingw-virt-viewer that changed on f23 and have them updated on
> msitools. Is it reasonable for you?
> 
> > 
> > Furthermore, I suggest that we officially declare 3.0 release to be
> > the *LAST* main line release to support GTK2 and GTK3 in parallel.
> > ie the relase 4.0 should be GTK3 only.
> 
> Agreed!
> 
> > 
> > If we need to do further fixes for GTK2, we can create a v2.0-maint
> > branch and have minor point releases (2.1, 2.2, etc) for that purpose,
> > but the bulk of new development be GTK3 focused.
> 
> Sounds like a good option!

I assume you mean v3.0-maint?

Sounds like a good plan to me.

> 
> Best Regards,
> --
> Fabiano Fidêncio
> 
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