Which GNOME 2.0 alternative is now the target?

[Christian Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

Hi people,

Since the temprature of the debate is back to a level where I feel
comfortable participating, I thought I should venture a question.
In his mail Martin pointed to a private mail he got from Owen about
wether his work would be included in GNOME 2.0 or not. As far as I can
see it was not adressed in any of the later mails so I just wanted to
ask what the plan currently is. Will we keep with HEAD or is going with
STABLE the current plan?

(And Martin I hope we see you back after your exams, GNOME simply
wouln't be the same without you.)

Christian


On 16 Jun 2001 20:26:20 +0200, Martin Baulig wrote:
> To make things worse, when I came home from university this tuesday I
> found a mail from Owen in my inbox with made be both very angry and
> very sad. This mail looked to me as if the board just decided to drop
> all efforts on GNOME 2 and to go with GNOME 1.4 + ported to GTK+ 2.0.
> 
> Now, when looking at the minutes of this board meeting
> (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-announce/2001-June/msg00000.html):
> 
>     "
>       - Gnome 2.0
> 
>         There is concerns that people are adding to HEAD, not stabilizing
>         it, working that way there is few chances we can ship in time.
> 
>         Seems that porting the stable branch to GTK-2.0 sounds a more
>         reliable way to end up with something stable. Some libgnome
>         APIs needs to be removed by their new GTK counterparts, but 
>         we should avoid unstable changes at the Gnome level.
>     "
> 
> According to the minutes, there was nothing decided, but at least they
> considered dropping libgnome and libgnomeui and starting again with the
> stable branch.
> 
> And according to Owen's private mail to me, my work on GNOME 2.0 is not
> wanted and the board is looking for a way to let it happen in parallel with
> GNOME 2.0, but not as part of it.
> 
> Ok, now when I take a look at the calender it tells me that there are only
> 5 weeks left until summer term in university ends. Yet again, I missed a
> lot at the university, but I also realized this week that it's not too late
> to make up with everything which I missed this term if I start learning now.
> 
> Congratulations for pissing away the only person who was actually working
> on libgnome(ui) and see you in five weeks, guys !
> 
> And now I care shit about that API freeze, instead I call my private live
> more important and concentrate on my studies.
> 
> [1] Actually a few people and a guy from Ximian offered me help.
>     However, it doesn't help me if I need to spend 3 hours exlaining
>     someone what to do if I can do it myself in 2 hours. And yesterday,
>     this flamewar kept me so busy that I didn't even had time to answer
>     that Ximian guy nor had I time to do any hacking.
> 
> -- 
> Martin Baulig
> martin gnome org (private)
> baulig suse de (work)
> 
> --=-=-=
> 
> 
> -- 
> Martin Baulig
> martin gnome org (private)
> baulig suse de (work)