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General ideas/discussion intended to ensure a successful GNOME3 release in Fedora 15.

What is Success?

A successful GNOME3 and Fedora 15 release are defined as:

runs on a reasonable range of graphics hardware
offers a graceful fallback for the rest
has working controls for common things like keyboards, monitors, network, sound and power
all desktop applications work and any applications built against gtk3 ...
- don't show status icons (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/MessageTray/Compatibility)
- use modal dialogs
- install hi-res icon

Open tasks

graceful fallback - code is needed to gracefully handle the following scenarios ...
- Insufficient hardware - the system hardware is known to not handle gnome-shell, and fallback mode is recommended
- shell failure - The shell crashes or fails to start for an unknown reason, a suitable fallback should be offered instead

Where's the bug?
Are the above open tasks tracked in upstream bugzilla?

When is the upstream decision made as to whether 2.91.x will become 3.0?: ??? (FIXME)

How is the upstream decision made as to whether 2.91.x will become 3.0? Is it dependent on blocker bug resolution, or release criteria?: ??? (FIXME)

If GnomeShell isn't considered ready by upstream, how will Fedora proceed?

??? (FIXME)

Where can I find GnomeShell marketting plans for upstream GNOME and Fedora?: ??? (FIXME)

What happened to the Fedora 14-vintage GNOME shell favorites sidebar allowing selection+presentation of favorite applications and folders?: ??? (FIXME)

How should multi-monitor support behave with GnomeShell in Fedora 15?: Currently, GnomeShell just treats any additional monitors as extra space to put windows in but otherwise more or less ignores them. When you go into overview mode, it only takes effect on one screen, the others are just left blank. There's nothing yet done to integrate the workspace model the Shell encourages with multi-monitor setups. There's a bug for this, but again, AFAICT no particular commitment to fixing it up before the 3.0 release. (This isn't actually much of a 'regression' compared to GNOME 2, which was similarly lax about doing much with extra screens, but it's the sort of thing people might expect GNOME 3 to have fixed).; ??? (FIXME)