Re: Boxes and 3.4

[William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 30 novembre 2011, à 00:37 +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) a écrit :
>> Hi everyone,
>>    As most of you know, we proposed Boxes for 3.4 and from what I can
>> tell, there were no big objections in the end. There was then the
>> question of us actually delivering in time. As seen on planet GNOME
>> not long after that, we delivered the first release which was included
>> in 3.3.2. There is still a long way ahead to make Boxes the awesome
>> app that we all would like it to be but to ensure that Boxes is in
>> good enough shape for 3.4 inclusion in time, we would like to know a
>> few things:
>>
>> * which features exactly are must?
>> * is the plan to keep vinagre in 3.4 alongside boxes?
>> * is Boxes going to be a 'preview' feature in 3.4 like Documents was in 3.2?
>>
>>  Release team? everyone?
>
> I'm sorry, but I still have the same objection :-) And talking to a few
> people, I understood that I'm not alone in feeling that Boxes might not
> fit core GNOME (even as a core app [1]).

Can you be more specific about the reasons for your objection?

Do you feel the same way about Vinagre?

> [1] http://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps -- just to give an example: I feel
> that a backup tool makes more sense than boxes as a core app, imho. And
> the wiki says that such a tool is very likely not a core app but would
> make a great regular app.

Really, this shouldn't be a competition between Backup and Boxes.
There are a number of reasons why Backup is in (for now) in the
prospective section. None of which are really on topic for this
thread.

Jon