[virt-tools-list] virt-manager release roadmap

[Gene Czarcinski]

On 03/23/2013 09:18 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> So really just trying to understand what the release roadmap is. Right
> now its been about 8 months since the last release of virtinst and
> virt-manager. There's 37 patches in virtinst since the last release
> and virt-manger has 42. Depending on the time frame of the GTK+3.2
> branch release, I think there's an advantage to doing a virtinst
> 0.600.4 and virt-manager 0.9.5. But there's really 3 ways to go. A
> basic bug fix release, looking at all the distros we're all carrying
> anywhere from half-dozen to a dozen patches or a full master release
> or wait until the GTK+ 3.2 release is ready. I'll be glad to put
> together the proposed patchset for the bug fix release and send it to
> the list if that's the route people want to go.
>
I believe there are a few stoppers before a new virt-manager based on 
the gtrk3.2 branch can be released.

1. virt-manager-tui is broken.

2. The Gtk/Gdk color stuff does not work.

While you can run the new virt-manager from a clone of the git, there 
appear to be a few things to be done so that it can be distributed as a 
tarball or rpm.  I believe that python-distutils-extra is being used in 
place of autotools for packaging but I have no idea how to do that.

In general the gui side does work and I have had few problems 
implementing my future patch/patches to implement IPv6 support and a few 
other things dealing with networking and the glade-3 ui's.

Gene