Re: Tomboy in Desktop
- From: David Nielsen <david lovesunix net>
- To: Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Tomboy in Desktop
- Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:02:54 +0200
fre, 21 07 2006 kl. 17:57 -0500, skrev Shaun McCance:
> 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.
I feel ashamed now.. How could I forget translations when I'm on the
Danish team - my bad.
I'll go sit in a corner now
- David
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