Re: GNOME 3.0 Schedule draft; Streamlining of the Platform.

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 13:41 +0100, Alberto Ruiz wrote:
> 2009/4/2 Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>:
> > On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 13:20 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> >>       * Still to discuss: dconf vs gconf. This is not yet covered by
> >>         this plan, but crucial to discuss (as gconf depends on
> >> Bonobo)
> >
> > There is gconf-dbus, the long-standing port of GConf to DBus that
> > Imendio did for Maemo.  Moblin also ships it and it shouldn't be *too*
> > difficult to merge it back[1].
> 
> My understanding on this after talking with Richard Hult, is that
> there is no GConf maintainer, and the DBus port is a huge hack and not
> really suitable for the main branch, and that a proper merge would
> need a lot of work.

Is it more or less work than finishing the replacement, and porting all
the apps and developer documentation, as well as writing porting
documentation?