Is file-roller dead?

[olskar]

Hello,
I saw a brainstormidea about removing/replacing file-roller, http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/9662/

It is not a bad idea I think.

The latest stable release came almost a year ago and the latest developmentrelease came August 27, 2007.

And as you can see there is some critical bugs..
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query=file-roller

~46(!) critical bugs that is unconfirmed..and a total of ~120 other unconfirmed bugs with various severity.


Is the project dead? Perhaps it is time for something else than file-roller in Ubuntu? What do you think?

[robzon]

I wouldn't mind.

[23meg]

As with all central GNOME components, it's highly unlikely that it will get replaced in Ubuntu unless the same happens upstream. And I don't see a valid reason why it should happen.

~46(!) critical bugs that is unconfirmed..

~46 bug reports (not bugs) pertaining to untriaged crashes. In theory they could even all be the single same bug. The number is meaningless until they are triaged.

and a total of ~120 other unconfirmed bugs with various severity.

Quite a sane number for a GNOME module.

Is the project dead?

It's been ported to GIO in GNOME 2.22, so definitely not.

[olskar]

It's been ported to GIO in GNOME 2.22, so definitely not.

Glad to hear!