Re: New module proposal: LightDM

[Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com>]

On 14 May 2011 00:19, Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Robert Ancell <robert ancell gmail com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I was not going to propose this project because I am sick of this sort
>> of unprofessional response, especially from leaders in the community.
>> It was the insistence of other leaders in the GNOME community that I
>> did end up proposing and the continual complaints from users,
>> sysadmins, customers, designers, and programmers about the login
>> experience.
>
> So, you consider it an unprofessional response if we are not falling
> over our feet in adopting a from-scratch rewrite of a core component
> that has not even been field-tested in any release yet ? Compare to
> the approach that Canonical takes to new things like, say GNOME3.. I
> think you will see some similarities.

Not at all.  All I want is a fair review, based on good technical
information and not being name-called or judged on assumptions about
my motivations.  Not being field-tested is a completely fair
criticism, and something I can take away and reuse in a proposal for
GNOME 3.4.

As both a Canonical employee and Ubuntu developer I can tell you we
constantly review all available free software for inclusion.  While we
do not always agree on every point we agree on a lot more than we
disagree.  I'm happy to continue to discuss this on another thread or
privately if you want to.

> Anyway, you are already pissed off, so probably best to stop...

My frustrations have certainly boiled over, but I will now resolve
those through the appropriate channels.  Apologies for the anger.