thanks. I understand the process you explained. Btw, when is the next batch coming?
Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, October 10, 2019 3:17 AM, Timothy Sample <samp...@ngyro.com> wrote: > Hi guixest, > > guixest guix...@protonmail.com writes: > > > hi. > > I was looking at available gtk based desktops. It appears xfce is up to > > date where as gnome > > is not. is there a reason for this? > > Yes and no. As I understand it, upgrading GNOME often means upgrading > GTK and GLib, which have a lot of dependants. We batch those kinds of > upgrades because the build farm needs time to catch up, and we need to > test the resulting package set. Usually this happens a couple times a > year, but the last batch took closer to a whole year to get through. (A > million thanks to everyone who worked so hard to get through it!) > > Beyond that, having helped test two GNOME upgrades, I can say that there > are enough issues that it is a bit of a “project”. It’s not so simple > as just bumping the versions and building the packages. > > That being said, I am hopeful that we will eventually be able to catch > up to upstream. We have some code for version 3.32, which is the > next-to-latest version. If someone (me if I can find the time) gets it > cleaned up quick enough, it will be part of the next batch upgrade. > BTW, we always appreciate help with testing if you’re up for it. :) > > -- Tim
