Re: Platform for Developer Documentation

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

2010/3/8 Josselin Mouette <joss debian org>:
> Le dimanche 07 mars 2010 à 15:16 -0600, Shaun McCance a écrit :
>> * PackageKit
>
> I don’t think we should consider PackageKit as a core development
> interface, but rather as an optional service. It doesn’t integrate
> properly with all distributions, and not all user setups make it useful,
> especially the largest installations.

Release often, release early. The only way to improve support is to
embrace it and push its adoption and get people to file bugs.

>> * PulseAudio
>
> Maybe it’s (still) a little too early to consider it? Support for a wide
> range of hardware is still very poor as of kernel 2.6.32.

Same here.

I'm growing a bit sick of GNOME having to be in this "limbo" situation
where it can't stick to any technology because downstream
distributions choose not to ship some components by default.

PackageKit and PulseAudio are two projects that are pretty well
aligned with the GNOME platform in terms of API technology and goals,
they solve hard problems to solve, they don't have any real contenders
(yes they have problems, but if we wait until they are perfect, we
will never have a platform).

So my take on this is, embrace those, help downstream to embrace them,
but let's not hold back or we will end up with a half arsed platform
that tries to solve everyone's problems and will end up solving no
one's.

> Furthermore, if you want to consider hardware support, maybe you can
> talk about GUdev? It’s still Linux-specific, but currently it is the way
> to go.
>
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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz