Re: [gnome-settings-daemon] datetime: Remove datetime D-Bus mechanism

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 15:31 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> Ubuntu has apparently taken steps to fix the problem, Debian can
> probably use the same code, and OpenSUSE can use the RPM I made and
> linked to earlier in the thread as a basis to fixing the problem.
> 
> You call me disrespectful and qualify my attitude as cavalier. It's
> anything but. There are many ways to solve this problem, and plenty that
> don't involve e-mails to me or reverting commits I made. I'd like those
> to be contemplated.

It is about email - just doing "git log plugins/datetime/" one can see
the people who had contributed to that code, and as far as I can see,
they were not all notified that it was just going to be deleted.  Not
all of these people watch bugzilla for g-s-d consistently.

For example both Michael Terry and Vincent Untz had contributed to the
code, but they seemed surprised.  And they contribute to GNOME, and for
them it's a regression.

That's the point here - we need to minimize regressions.  No one wants
to be part of a project where other people come along and either
unintentionally or intentionally remove/break code that you wrote that
worked.

And this is just shuffling around where the date/time code lives.  It's
hard to describe it as a new, compelling addition to Free Software.

Anyways I don't want to drag this out more than it already is - if the
affected people are OK implementing a DBus service, then that works.
But if they feel e.g. that it's easier for them to keep the mechanism
code around and have control-center talk to it, we should at least
consider that perspective, because that code worked before, and could
continue working.