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bethaviv
October 19th, 2007, 01:56 PM
I was looking at the release schedule for GNOME and 2.22 doesn't seem to be out until right after alpha 6... I'm assuming then (also since 15 days later the Hardy beta should be out) that 2.22 isn't going to make it into Hardy. Is there any confirmation?
Mr. Picklesworth
October 19th, 2007, 02:00 PM
I believe that is the usual pattern. That's the final GNOME 2.22, so Ubuntu works with its devel versions up until alpha 6. This means that they get a ton of feedback from the Ubuntu user-base, and GNOME bugs that affect Ubuntu get fixed in GNOME's bugfix period. Those 15 days are ample time to make sure the stable version of GNOME 2.22 is working, which it probably is.
bethaviv
October 19th, 2007, 02:08 PM
Thanks =)

I wasn't sure which freeze point would cause GNOME not to get updated in Ubuntu.
bruce89
October 19th, 2007, 07:04 PM
I wasn't sure which freeze point would cause GNOME not to get updated in Ubuntu.

None of them.
DizzyTech
October 19th, 2007, 08:46 PM
Ubuntu was originally developed around Gnome's six-month dev cycle.
autocrosser
October 20th, 2007, 12:54 PM
I follow the Garnome project & they are now running 2.21.1 (unstable)--we should be seeing that development cycle show in Hardy shortly after the repos have downloads for us---I expect in 2~3 weeks.
Zdravko
October 20th, 2007, 01:36 PM
So, we will have Gnome 2.22 in Hardy?
int
October 20th, 2007, 03:51 PM
So, we will have Gnome 2.22 in Hardy?

yes, I'm using ubuntu since the first (4.10), and all version release a new version of gnome..

Ubuntu is gnome dependent.. and if no new gnome version, why release a new ubuntu version.. l:)
Next.Step
October 20th, 2007, 05:04 PM
well it would still make sense because of the new apps
Zdravko
October 21st, 2007, 03:38 AM
What new apps?
Lozz
October 21st, 2007, 05:16 AM
What new apps?

All the things that get updated such as open office, GIMP, scribus, gstreamer, gaim/pidgin etc. As well as all the new things which get created such as compiz fusion, if that truly counts as new.
Kosimo
October 21st, 2007, 08:20 PM
The strange thing about it is that we'll see GNOME 2.22 in Herdy, but we won't see any update of the 2.20 later than the strictly necessary the x.1 because as always, Gutsy won't be updated to 2.20.2, or 2.20.3.
Something I still don't understand. When that later releases makes the 2.20 version more and more stable
screaminj3sus
October 21st, 2007, 10:33 PM
The strange thing about it is that we'll see GNOME 2.22 in Herdy, but we won't see any update of the 2.20 later than the strictly necessary the x.1 because as always, Gutsy won't be updated to 2.20.2, or 2.20.3.
Something I still don't understand. When that later releases makes the 2.20 version more and more stable

Why would they update to .1 but not any others? indeed strange.
Kosimo
October 22nd, 2007, 06:57 AM
Why would they update to .1 but not any others? indeed strange.

I don't really know... But Feisty has the 2.18.1 but the there's already the 2.18.3 available.

So, I guess that in Gutsy we'll see the same again.
Maybe developers prefer spending more time implementing the new version to the next major release than to upgrade the current one.
autocrosser
October 22nd, 2007, 02:37 PM
How about the limited amount of help? If more people help---more things get done.
Twintop
October 22nd, 2007, 02:44 PM
I don't really know... But Feisty has the 2.18.1 but the there's already the 2.18.3 available.

So, I guess that in Gutsy we'll see the same again.
Maybe developers prefer spending more time implementing the new version to the next major release than to upgrade the current one.

What's the current Gnome version in 6.06? It could be that because 6.10/7.04/(and now)7.10 aren't LTS releases they don't update past a certain point, but for 6.06 and 8.04 they will be?