Re: New module proposal: LightDM

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com> wrote:
>
> There have been problems for years and years and years.  There is some
> point where you need to reconsider if that strategy is appropriate.

So here's some actual data:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?cf_gnome_target=---;cf_gnome_version=---;query_format=advanced;emaillongdesc1=1;bug_status=UNCONFIRMED;bug_status=NEW;bug_status=ASSIGNED;bug_status=REOPENED;bug_status=NEEDINFO;bug_status=RESOLVED;bug_status=VERIFIED;email1=robert.ancell%40gmail.com;product=gdm;emailtype1=substring

It looks like to your credit, you have submitted patches; some like
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=596831 have been accepted,
others like https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593996
discussed, considered, and rejected.  The latter one is obsoleted now
by the accounts service anyways.

I'm not convinced by this data that GDM has been a problematic code
base to work on.  You're obviously free to create a new project; but
on the basis above, I'd say you really didn't try very hard to make
real changes in GDM before deciding to rewrite from scratch.