On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:14 AM, James Ogley <riggwelter@opensuse.org> wrote:
I had a message a couple of days ago from Ryan Paul, lead developer on Gwibber. He was apologising basically for the state of the Couch-based Gwibber and telling me that he's dropping it as soon as that version (to which, I think, Ubuntu are committed for their next release) is out the door.
That's great news; it never made sense to me that Gwibber would need to use a document store, or that you would want to sync anything besides your preferences, so Couch always seemed like a bizarre dependency for it. But I wonder how this will work. The Couch-based Gwibber is part of the new LTS release for Ubuntu, which means it will be supported for quite some time. I wonder if there will be pressure on Ryan to stick with Couch, if for no other reason than to make sure that the 2.30 release stays maintained for LTS reasons.
I'm inclined to commit it to home:Riggwelter:GNOME for a bit more testing. Given that it's already ahead of the Couch version, I'm also inclined to propose it for 11.3 which would mean we could drop the whole Couch stack too as I don't think anything else uses it (hence all the pain in getting it sorted for Gwibber).
I believe the Couch stack also stands in the way of having Ubuntu One desktop client packages. I'm not advocating that we invest a lot of time adding support for a competitor's proprietary sync solution, but certainly there are users that want it, so it's worth considering before dropping the whole Couch stack. Sandy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org