Re: Tomboy in Desktop

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 00:10 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
> l�2 07 2006 kl. 02:33 +1000, skrev Jeff Waugh:
> >  * If Alex wants to adopt the GNOME release cycle and strategy for Tomboy,
> >    that's *fantastic*... but we can approach that differently.
> 
> Tomboy being largely feature complete and stable would need mostly
> maintenance, this is up to Alex to sign on for though - Ekiga e.g.
> doesn't follow the GNOME cycle religiously either so long as it works
> with the desktop we ship and doesn't fall into an unmaintained state
> Tomboy should be fine.
> 
> Following the cycle is mostly about:
> * deploying bugfixes
> * adopting platform changes
> * adding required features  
> 
> And being sure that users actually get this supportable version of your
> software in hand. 

 * letting translators translate, unless the developers
   want to translate their program into 45 languages.
 * letting documentation writers write documentation,
   unless the developers want to do it.

There are *many* advantages to a stable release cycle, and
a number of those reasons have to do with the fact that the
programmers are not the only people producing what we ship.

--
Shaun