Re: Modulesets Reorganization

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 07:52 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> ...total nightmare...
> ...crush all these efforts...
> 
> I understand that change is uncomfortable and incites fear, but can we
> please lay off the melodramatic voice here ?
> 
> There's three basic facts that lead us to this proposal:
> 
> 1. We have an ever-growing set of modules and a constantly expanding
> set of external dependencies.

Because the release team has been saying Yes too easily.

>  It is basically impossible to get a
> complete jhbuild tree built at any given time.
> 
> 2. The much touted homogeneity and consistent quality of GNOME is
> (imho) largely a thing of the past.

Because the release team has been saying Yes too easily.

>  There have been no organized UI
> reviews of new modules in a long time, the HIG has not been updated to
> match the UIs we see in current applications.
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