On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 09:21 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote: > > > > > Then I think your proposal will be a complete disaster. I'm horrified > > that we must again justify the existence of a shared release schedule > > and of a release-team that keeps modules on that schedule. > > > > This is little more than killing the GNOME release process just because > > you have forgotten why we needed it in the first place. > > > > A bit dramatic today, are we ? > > See, what we have today is an ever-growing set of modules (>200 !), > that is almost impossible to get to build at any given time. And many > of these modules have very little to do with each other and very > little reason to be forced into the same schedule. > > It is time to cut back and focus on the core desktop a bit more, and > let the wider set of apps run a little more freely. the problem which could arise here is, that many apps could loose some of their quality, be it translations, documentation or also programming issues and use of deprecated stuff. have a look at gnomefiles.org or any other conglomeration of gnome-style software and compare that quality to what we have inside gnome. of course, it does not have to come like this, but there is a possibility which i personally would like to avoid. daniel > > If we didn't want to make any changes, we could just continue to do > GNOME 2.x until we all retire... > > > Matthias > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gnome org> http://www.dgsiegel.net gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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