RE: GNOME "Products"

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

I think you are just asking for 5th Toe to be taken more seriously and to be
managed more seriously. I think that's happening now, and I think we should
give the new 5th team a chance.

Personally I think a name change could help further, but I'm clearly
obsessed with names.

Murray Cumming
murrayc usa net
www.murrayc.com 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Leblanc [mailto:gleblanc linuxweasel com] 
> Sent: Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2003 09:07
> To: GNOME Desktop List
> Subject: GNOME "Products"
> 
> 
> I've been watching all of this traffic about what modules ought to get
> into the GNOME Desktop, and which oughtn't.  It seems like plenty of
> folks agree that we there are applications out there which meet the
> broader quality and maintainership criteria for being a "GNOME"
> application, but there is dispute about whether or not they 
> ought to be
> part of the GNOME Desktop release.
> 
> One potential solution is to create, or use another GNOME release. 
> We've got three GNOME releases right now.  GNOME Developer Platform,
> GNOME Desktop, and GNOME Fifth Toe.  At the moment, these are pretty
> closely tied together.  The Developer Platform and the Desktop are on
> the same release cycle, and Fifth Toe is built on the Desktop, so it
> deploys shortly after the Desktop release.
> 
> Since these applications aren't destined to be part of the Desktop, we
> can rule out the Desktop, and thus the Developer Platform as possible
> homes for these apps.  That leaves either Fifth Toe, or creating a new
> GNOME release.  
> 
> The question to ask seems to be "What are the pros and cons of each?" 
> I've thought a little about the answers, but I've only found more
> questions.
> 
> How do users feel about the Fifth Toe releases?  How about 
> Developers? 
> Do we need a full 'release team' for the GNOME "Product" that ends up
> containing these packages?  Do we need to hold them to standards that
> are similar to the ones for the GNOME Desktop release?  Or higher?  Or
> lower?  Are we going to build this on top of the Desktop, or the
> Developer Platform?  I don't have the rest of the questions, or even
> answers to these.  Thoughts?
> 
>