What can GNOME do to help distros in the switch to GNOME 3?

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

There was some discussion on IRC about GNOME 3 TODOs wrt downstream, and
I guess it doesn't hurt to ask here :-)

For your distribution, is there anything you believe GNOME can do to
make the switch to GNOME 3 easier. This could include:

 - good documentation for users, to explain the changes (what kind of
   details, what kind of changes?)

 - nice notes for packages, so they know what's tricky while updating
   the packages (what kind of stuff is usually tricky for you?)

 - writing scripts to make sure some configuration is kept (even though
   upstream GNOME might consider that it's preferred for user to start
   with a brand new configuration for a specific app)

 - etc.

I believe that with GNOME 2.x, most of this was usually not too hard,
and even though we might not have done a good job at communicating with
downstream for version bumps, the information was findable. But GNOME 3
is a much bigger leap, so we'd like to at least try to improve
communication :-)

Thanks,

Vincent

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