Blocks? and bug 8090

[Eben Eliason]

Sorry, to clarify:  I think we should remove blocks?:8.2.0 from #8090,
since we clearly aren't going to fix all those bugs.  However, we
should add it to #7669, which has a patch awaiting review, since that
ticket solves 5 others if the patch is accepted.

- Eben


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not really an issue of speed.  The launcher in current joyrides
> has a half-dozen serious behavioral bugs.  I worked with Marco to
> create a patch for this, which cleans up all but one tiny behavioral
> glitch, and which after 3+ days of testing by myself and a few others
> has yielded no side effects.  The patch (attached to #7669) fixes more
> than half of the bugs listed in #8090, and is a really big win in that
> regard; I think the patch should be seriously considered for 8.2.0,
> considering the extent of the brokenness of the current behavior.
>
> - Eben
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Marco,
>>
>> Reading the "Blocks?" bugs this morning: http://dev.laptop.org/report/29
>>
>> I noticed that we can get a lot of them off the list if we can close or
>> defer 8090.
>>
>> Where are we with activity launching? Is it good enough and we have the main
>> issues ironed out?
>>
>> I see mention of "Eben's" patch in the bug. Is that in the latest joyride?
>>
>> If its as fast or faster than 708 and we have no other serious issues (aside
>> from 7876 which we will address separately), let's declare victory and come
>> back to it in 9.1 as needed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Greg S
>>
>