Re: About GNOME 2.0 - The end of a dream

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 02:21:46PM +0200, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 10:15:57PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > >
> > > Dietmar Maurer <dietmar ximian com> writes:
> > > > Summary: We simply got the deep impression that you are not interested in
> > > > changing anything, and that is why we started bonobo-config.
> > > >
> > >
> > > So what you are saying is: you don't agree with me, so you wrote your
> > > own thing. Fair enough. I respect your right to write a thing.
> > >
> > > The issue is that we can't just agree to disagree, we have to mutually
> > > agree on the default database. Or at least, someone has to decide.
> >
> >   I think we should learn from this example. There was a disagrement,
> > it was not mediated when found. Instead a new project was started,
> > and it was not made obvious that the goal was to replace the initial
> > work in the gnome platform (problem would have been smaller it it was
> > intended as an app only development). But at the end we still need
> > to resolve the issue except it's far more difficult because people
> > have spent time to do the code in the meantime (and possibly rely
> > on it).
> 
> The above statement give the impression that we have made some massive code
> duplication, which is simply not true.

  This is not the point.
Do you agree that we should have a formal process to get a new piece of code
added to the Gnome platform:
   - yes
   - no

  Don't make convolution around it, it's the real question at stake !

Daniel
 
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