Re: Maintaining / Helping out on Dia

[Tomas Pospisek <tpo2 sourcepole ch>]

Am 03.12.18 um 05:31 schrieb Steve Litt:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 21:21:50 -0500
> Michael Ross via dia-list <dia-list gnome org> wrote:
>
> > I believe that Steffen (managed producing a windows installer) and
> > Hans Breuer (who was the main decision maker about the direction of
> > development) have passed on to their next incarnation. I think Tomas
> > was suggesting to contact Gnome personnel.  
>
> Right now Dia is pretty much self-contained and pays no tariffs to the
> likes of systemd. Handing it over to the Gnome people would eventually
> result in a Dia very picky about what WM/DE and even what init system
> the user is using. I'd suggest staying away from Gnome and Freedesktop
> for these reasons, so anyone running GNU/Linux can use it.

Dia *is* a Gnome project: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Dia.

Of course it can be taken out of Gnome, however that is a social
process. All distros are basing their packaging on Dia from Gnome AFAIK.

Also, I don't see Gnome forcing Dia to do whatever. I'd think that "the
one who does the work is the one who decides" applies just as well to
Gnome as a project as to Open Source in general - but that's just a guess.
*t