Re: Generating excitement in GNOME

["Lucas Rocha" <lucasr gnome org>]

Hi,

What's the status of this?

--lucasr


2007/4/25, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp redhat com>:
> Recent blog posts I did:
>
> http://www.j5live.com/?p=355
> http://www.j5live.com/?p=356
>
> gave some people the impression that I was against excitement in GNOME.
> That sentiment could not be further from the truth.  In fact I see and
> participate in exciting project every day.  However being a mature
> project we need to weigh the new and exciting with the need to support
> stability and time tested technology.
>
> The exciting stuff is happening all around us it is just that it is not
> publicized and much of it takes a long term view that does not fit well
> into our time based releases.  It is correct that they stay this way so
> that they can move along, experimenting without the heavy constraints
> that becoming part of release puts on them.
>
> After talking with the release team to see if there are any objections,
> as it is the release team that will be fielding the work that this
> proposal will generate, we now open it up for comment to the rest of the
> GNOME developer community.  We wish to start a new "Sneak Peek" release
> module.  This module will contain API's and applications which are in
> the process of being developed for a future release of GNOME but are not
> yet API stable or in a form that is full acceptable for the GNOME
> release process.  Examples may be a fully integrated Network Manager,
> Telepathy, Gimme, Big Board, Beagle, and Tracker.
>
> The current proposal for rules are that the project is in a usable
> state, seeing active development, moving towards a time based release,
> and having a dogfoodable upstream repository.  On top of that project
> members should be open to advice from the GNOME community and recognize
> that being part of the module does not grantee inclusion in GNOME at
> some later date.
>
> This gives project the room to experiment while letting other developers
> keep an eye on the future directions GNOME may go in.  It is my
> prediction, seeing the way this sort of ecosystem bloomed with
> freedesktop modules and GNOME, that there will be early adopters who
> will port their apps to work with the newer technologies even before
> API's are frozen and projects make it into the GNOME releases.  This
> will allow the projects themselves to gain real world feedback and allow
> GNOME to move faster by having applications already utilizing the
> technologies before they are accepted.
>
> This proposal is now open to comments and adjustments.
>
> --
> John (J5) Palmieri <johnp redhat com>
>
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