Re: NLD10 and GNOME

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> Hi, 
> While it would be good to get fixes and improvements right away I do
> think its to hard to criticize anyone for holding back a bit on things
> they are doing. Being able to ship something first is an important
> marketing tool and this has happened before. In most cases where it has
> happened the distribution makers have been good at working with the
> community afterwards to get their changes merged upstream.
>
> Remember getting those changes merged in is in their interest too
> as keeping a larger and larger diff maintained is very costly and time
> consuming, so I am sure nobody wants to keep the changes any longer than
> necessary.

I agree and im not judging Novell here but merely being blunt in asking 
a direct question (and hopefully I will get a direct answer)

My concern is that if this becomes the rule rather than the exception 
and if say Red Hat follows suit then it would make gnome development 
effectively untenable and increase the risk of forking.

That said Novell is certainly due all the praise and credit they will no 
doubt get when things are released and no one wants to take that away 
from them. Perhaps we can find some middle ground here that keeps 
everyone happy?

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Mr Jamie McCracken
http://www.advogato.org/person/jamiemcc/