Re: GNOME and non-linux platforms (release team please stand up)

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 22 Jul 2009, at 15:56, Johannes Schmid wrote:

> OK, I can install all those in a virtual machine but just the amount  
> of
> work I had to put in for basic testing cannot be really done in my  
> free
> time.

That's certainly true for many individual contributors, which is why I  
also said we ought to "to figure out how to better distribute the  
development and QA workload to make that happen".

However, for people who make their living developing GNOME software,  
IMHO it behooves them as professional open source software engineers  
to respect the requirements of the other people who will be using the  
code they write, insofar as those requirements are known up front.   
And right now, every professional GNOME developer knows up front that  
GNOME isn't confined to running on Linux, so that should figure fairly  
strongly into their design work.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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