Re: GNOME Shell 46
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 4:50 PM Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
> I had been thinking that if magpie doesn't get through NEW by the time
> the time_t transition is out of the way, we should ask for budgie-desktop
> to be removed from testing as part of a GNOME 45 transition. I don't want
> to be removing a working desktop environment, and it isn't really fair
> on the Budgie contributors, but I also don't think it's sustainable for
> gnome-shell (popcon: ~ 60K) to be held hostage by Budgie (popcon: ~ 400).
>
> It's a pity that we only have one experimental, but if we make a note of
> the last-known versions as of just before work on Shell 46 starts, it would
> still be possible to get 45 into unstable if 46 isn't ready.
Oh, I didn't realize Budgie popcon was so low. It's probably hurt by
not being an official Debian desktop task. Looking at it that way,
maybe we should have pushed GNOME Shell in sooner.
I think it's a reasonable prediction that GNOME Shell 46 will be "good
enough" by the time the time_t transition clears.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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