Re: Generating excitement in GNOME

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

My personal reaction is that it would be more useful to have a GNOME 
"distribution" (such as something jhbuild or garnome derived) which can 
act as a testbed of next-generation technologies - and where people can 
happily make different modules work together, or swap out the panel for 
something else, for example - than to take a selection of modules and 
put them in another formal release set.

Another release set opens a real can of worms - what's the criteria for 
inclusion? Are we creating an artificial barrier that a cool project has 
to get over before it is taken seriously? Would any degree of conformity 
to a 6-month cycle would be expected - this could just be a pain for 
modules that want to focus on breaking everything together while they 
still can.

My 2p.

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Andrew