Re: systemd as external dependency

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Luca Ferretti <lferrett gnome org> wrote:
> Il giorno mer, 18/05/2011 alle 10.40 -0400, William Jon McCann ha
> scritto:
>
>> > Having optional Linux-only functionalities is OK;
>> > requiring Linux is not.
>>
>> For Debian perhaps.  However, I don't think this is true for GNOME.
>> The future of GNOME is as a Linux based OS.
>
> What's the official position adopted by GNOME Foundation about this
> statement?
>
> And was this statement communicated in a neat and undoubtful way to
> GNOME contributors and third parties? I mean stuff like: "What is GNOME
> OS", "Relationship between future GNOME OS and currently existing
> distro", and so on...
>
>
> Cheers, Luca

Without talking to the whole board (yet), we have supported the
Release Team's direction of defining GNOME core and a broader
definition of GNOME applications.

When talking to partners, we continue to talk about GNOME as two
things:  the GNOME desktop (which constitutes GNOME core +
applications) and the GNOME Developer Platform, which allows partners
to build on and extend GNOME technologies.  Unity, MeeGo, Sugar and
more are built on the GNOME Developer Platform and we're proud GNOME
technologies can be used in other areas.

Longer term, I personally believe there will be opportunities to
define GNOME core as GNOME OS, which could also lead to some
interesting decisions to be made about the GNOME brand.

I will be adding this as an agenda topic in future Board meetings and
I look forward to discussing this more at the Desktop Summit this year
with Foundation members in person.

Paul