Re: systemd as external dependency

[Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <efgiovanini gmail com>]

Em Qui, 2011-05-19 às 13:28 +0200, Olav Vitters escreveu:
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:30:14PM +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > Il giorno gio, 19/05/2011 alle 12.00 +0200, Olav Vitters ha scritto:
> > 
> > > No, not at all what I meant. That would be really really bad.
> > > 
> > > Just that if someone asks on #gnome which distribution to start his
> > > jhbuild on, I'd make clear that Ubuntu would mean a lot of difficulties.
> > 
> > Are you sure? There are good pages on live.gnome.org about how to use
> > jhbuild on Ubuntu and which packages you could need to install.
> 
> I'm not an expert on giving support. I try to help people as best as I
> can. Which means I am going to provide my personal beliefs about what is
> best.
> 
> I give that advice on IRC in public channels. Anyone is free to jump in
> if they have different experiences/opinions.

Telling people to switch distributions is a much bigger turn off than
you realize. The barrier to contributing to GNOME should not be that
high, and many will follow the "switch to a different OS" advice as
"contribute to something else, this is too much". That doesn't help
anyone.

If you're not familar enough with Ubuntu to understand the problems
people are having with the GNOME 3 ppa then simply redirect them to the
GNOME 3 ppa mailing list, where they can find people qualified to help
with those specific issues.

Cheers,
Evandro