[fab] Re: openmotif

[Tom 'spot' Callaway]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 09:50 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 August 2006 09:39, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > >> As for the applications that depend on motif, I say we do the following:
> > >>
> > >> 1) Announce that openmotif will be dropped in X days, weeks.
> > >> 2) Provide information o lesstif as the alternative.
> > >> 3) Maintainers of packages that have motif dependencies have the same X
> > >> days, or weeks to fix their applications to work with lesstif
> > >> 4) Drop openmotif after the time period has elapsed
> > >> 5) Deal with any unfixed packages at that time.
> > >
> > > I like this plan a lot.  It sets deadlines and expectations properly.
> > > openmotif just needs to go away.
> > >
> > > So who can make said announcement?
> >
> > I can be play the bad-cop here.  Question is, how long of a deadline for
> > step 1?  Is 2 weeks enough?
> 
> This is exactly my proposal.
> 
> Test3 freeze is on the 5th of Sept, and that's a little too soon.  While I 
> don't like "shipping" yet another "release" with openmotif, I think its 
> unreasonable to expect these things to be fixed by Tuesday.  October 2nd is 
> the final development freeze, and that seems like a good cutoff point to me.

Actually, I think I can fix these things by Tuesday. Stay tuned.

~spot
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