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[Aaron Peachey <alpeachey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I think we are close enough that if we were to push hard between now
and October we would have it in a nice space, as long as we focus on
bug fixing relating to gtk3 primarily.
At this point there are a fair few bugs coming through but none of
them seem to be huge (in my opinion - haven't tested alot of the gtk3
stuff myself) and as Matt points out, the fixes are happening pretty
fast.

My only concern would be how much testing is happening. Is it enough
for us to be comfortable that there aren't any big sleeper bugs hiding
in there?
It would be good to expose the gtk3 version to some pretty intense
testing to find out now rather than later.
Not sure what our options are for this, perhaps makes gtk3 the default
version for Oneiric so everyone who is using alpha versions becomes a
tester. Alternatively, see if we can get some blog posts (OMGUbuntu?)
telling the community "if you want gtk3 USC in Oneiric, start using it
now in your alpha installs and raise all the bugs you find asap"

I'd be excited to work towards having it in for O if we can get it there.

cheers
Aaron

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Matthew McGowan
<matthew.joseph.mcgowan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all, mvo,
> Naturally i would be really excited to see the gtk3 ui become the default.
>  The rate of fixes over the past week gives me confidence that we can get a
> fairly polished release out the door come October.  Moreover, the attention
> the gtk3 ui has received of late hasn't shown up any huge issues with the
> bindings, gtk3, or the new code.  My biggest concern would be the
> back/forward navigation stuff.
>
>
> Cheers
> Matt
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 7:54 AM, Michael Vogt <mvo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I grew really fond of the gtk3 UI (thanks again to Matthew McGowan for
>> spending so much work on it!). Its part of the oneiric software-center
>> package since ~10 days now or so and we got some good feedback
>> already.
>>
>> I would like to raise a feature freeze exception and get it in for
>> beta1 as the default UI instead of the current gtk2 UI. What are your
>> feelings about it? (then the gtk2 ui would be moved into a branch and
>> retired from trunk).
>>
>> I know we have quite a few bugs left, but it seems like nothing that
>> is really bad, mostly polish and inconsistencies. The only thing we
>> can't do at this point is add more feature to it, just fixes.  There
>> is a certain risk here because its a lot of new code plus a new gtk3
>> plus new bindings (that are really new). The alternative would be to
>> port something like the banners over to the old UI and wait another
>> release (or try getting it in out-of-band which has proven to be
>> difficult in the past).
>>
>> How does the rest of the team think about this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  Michael
>>
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