Re: Opening the 3.12 cycle

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak gnome org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Andrew W. Nosenko
> <andrew w nosenko gmail com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:58 PM, Jasper St. Pierre
> > <jstpierre mecheye net> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Andy Tai <atai gnu org> wrote:
> > > > what would this mean for systems not using systemd?
> > >
> > >
> > > Systems not using systemd already fall back to ConsoleKit, which does not
> > > have any maintainer. We don't support features like suspend or hibernate on
> > > ConsoleKit anymore and it's pretty much on life support only at this point.
> > >
> > > For 3.12, we will keep the old gnome-session and gdm code that uses
> > > ConsoleKit and fork/exec ourselves in the case where you compile without
> > > logind support, but I wouldn't expect it to be around much longer.
> > >
> > > Do you have any specific examples of systems not using systemd that you
> > > would like to run GNOME on?
> >
> > Did you heard about FreeBSD?
>
> How many people use FreeBSD? I doubt its a significant enough number
> for us to spend our time and resources on it.
>
> > PS. Do you know any OS that _uses_ systemd at all beside Linux?
>
> But apparently its the only free OS worth caring about. I think Jasper
> was asking about distros as I'm pretty sure he is well aware that
> systemd doesn't run on an archaic OSs, such as FreeBSD.

Sorry it came out so harsh. I only intended to make it clear that
Linux is the main (if not, the only) target most GNOME developers
focus on. Jasper said it much better. Anyway, apologies.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124