Hi Stefano,
On 11/09/12 22:17, Stefano Rivera wrote:
Hi Lanoxx (2012.09.11_21:34:23_+0200)
The other question is: What would be required to get this into Ubuntu?
You'd release it, and then, ideally, you would encourage one the Debian
tilda maintainers to upload it. (Presumably to experimental, as Debian is
in freeze) Then we could sync it from Debian.
http://packages.qa.debian.org/t/tilda.html
However, it doesn't look like they have done much in the last few years.
In fact, the primary maintainer of it has retired from Debian.
So, it likely needs someone to take over maintenance of tilda in Debian.
That is something you can help with, if you are interested.
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
Anyway, the situation in Debian looks like it'll take a while to
resolve. In the meantime:
Ubuntu is in Feature Freeze for the 12.10 release:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseSchedule
So, getting your new release into quantal could be possible, but it's
already fairly late. There is a process for freeze exceptions, if your
gtk+3 port is ready, and the risk of the new version is outweighed by
the benefits it brings.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess
I have just released 1.0.0 (its tagged and branched in 'tilda-1-0') on
my github repository at https://github.com/lanoxx/tilda.
The main changes are:
* Port to GTK+3 and VTE 2.90
* Fixed bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/tilda/+bug/929366
* Migrated from libglade to GtkBuilder
* Many new configurable shortcuts (e.g. switch to tab, quit, open/close tab)
* Fixed some Gtk-Critical and Gtk-Warnings that were showing on the shell
* Added XDG Config spec support, tilda will now migrate existing config
files to ~/.config or XDG_CONFIG_HOME
and store now configs there.
* Some cleanup to the autotools build infrastructure
* Deprecated and removed a some old code (e.g. use glib with gettext
instead of some (very) old statically linked gettext library, removed
some old settings migration code)
* More documentation in the code and in autotools files to help help
interested developers gettings started
All in all I believe it that tilda is now much more stable than the old
version which is from 2009 or earlier and it uses gtk+3 and has XDG
config spec support. So I would argue that it is definitely worth to
make a freeze exception for this. Unfortunately I have never build a
Debian package and I'm not sure if I have the time to learn that in the
next few days. So if someone could help me with that, that would be awesome.
Im looking forward to your feedback.
Ubuntu has already a tilda project registered in launchpad
That's entirely unrelated to the Ubuntu package.
Don't worry about the LP package.
Please come and stick your nose into #ubuntu-motu on irc.freenode.net,
if you want to discuss this.
SR
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