Approaching 3.24

So, we have just entered code freeze approaching the GNOME 3.24 release, which is scheduled for next week.
In Maps, I just released the final beta (3.23.92) tarball yesterday, but since I made a git mistake (shit happens), I had to push an additional tag, so if you want to check out the release using the tag (and not using a tarball), go for “v3.23.92-real”.
Right after the release I got some reports of Maps not working when running sandboxed from a Flatpak package. It seems that the GOA (GNOME Online Accounts) service is not reachable via dbus from inside the sandbox, and while this is something that should be fixed (for applications that needs this privilege when running sandboxed) we still shouldn't crash. Actually I think this might also affect people wanting to run Maps in a more minimalistic non-GNOME environment. So I have proposed a patch that should fix this issue, and hopefully we can get time to review this and get freeze exception for this as a last-minute fix.

Another thing I thought I should point out after reading the article on Phoronix after my last blog post about landing the transit routing feature, and I was perhaps a bit unclear on this, is that using the debug environment variable to specify the URL for an OpenTripPlanner server requires that you have an instance to point it to, such as running your own server or using a third-party server. We will not have the infrastructure in place for a GNOME-hosted server in time for the 3.24 release.

Looking ahead towards 3.26, I have some ideas both as proof-of-concept implementation and some thoughts, but more on that later!