[Sugar-devel] NetworkManager 0.9 (was: Re: Sugar 0.94 - Schedule proposal)

[Daniel Drake]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Sascha Silbe <silbe at activitycentral.com> wrote:
> NetworkManager 0.8 and below already supported system connections, so
> it's not so much a shift as getting rid of one of two options. It might
> be a good intermediate step to switch to NM 0.8 + system connections
> (the original plan of SL#1884 [1]).

True, but Sugar never manipulated the system connections or displayed
them (except for ethernet). You are right in saying that the changes
aren't too invasive though.

> With my Dextrose hat on, I'd like to see us move to NM 0.9 for the next
> release. With my Sugar hat on, I'm worried about large changes
> introducing a lot of regressions, like with Telepathy. While moving to
> system connections is large enough to be of concern itself, the
> additional changes required for NM 0.9 increase the risk (though I'm not
> sure by how much).

What do you mean by "next release"? Sugar 0.96?

Also, which additional changes are you referring to?

I made quite a lot of progress over the weekend in getting NM-0.9
supported. Like in 0.8 we do not take advantage of much of what NM can
do, and we have some issues that get carried over from before, but in
simply maintaining the existing functionality it seems quite low risk
so far.

Daniel