Re: Underlying DE for the Fedora Workstation product

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Mon, 2014-02-03 at 22:22 -0500, Alexander GS wrote:
> When you abandon active and popular products like that you cause
> developers to fork your product and keep it in active development.  Just
> like the MATE team is doing today.  In reality MATE is providing the
> free support and development that GNOME should really be doing.

GNOME is not a company, and we can't force anybody to work on anything.
If developers (or companies that employ developers) are interested in
continuing GNOME 2 development, they can do so.

> That's why I propose the following:
>
> Proposal: GNOME Foundation adopts GNOME 2 (MATE) as an official GNOME
> desktop alongside GNOME 3 (GNOME Shell).

As I recall, we reached out to MATE and asked them if they'd like to
continue GNOME 2 development under the GNOME umbrella, including use of
our infrastructure and brand. They declined. That's their right.

I don't know how we can do your proposal. We could make a statement that
GNOME 2 development can continue, but unless developers volunteer to put
in time to make it happen, it's an empty statement.

--
Shaun