Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3
- From: Dave Neary <bolsh gnome org>
- To: Luis Villa <luis tieguy org>
- Cc: GNOME release team <release-team gnome org>, GNOME Marketing List <marketing-list gnome org>, Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>
- Subject: Re: Issuing a press release about GNOME 3
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:40:35 +0200
Hi,
Dave Neary wrote:
I think we need to wrap this up as like this, and no more:
We're moving to a 6 month/2 year time-based cycle. Our first 2-year
cycle started in March (that means we're now behind schedule! Ouch!)
2 year cycle: Identify big overriding theme - current low-hanging fruit
would be web integration, presence, geo-positioning, IM - the platform
for these exists, all that is needed is to turn that into real
user-available features - for each application or group of applications,
do the specification work (eg. Rhythmbox with an "Upcoming concerts from
this artist (and similar artists) in your area" - information all
available from Last.fm and geoclue - would rock). We're not going to get
all this done in one cycle, but it creates a goal, something to aim for
& push people towards
6-month cycle: As you were. Keeps platform & apps stable and evolving.
For the moment, we've decided to move to the cycle. Now we need to have
a process which arrives at a finality - realistic user-targetted goals
which will benefit users, and not have us drowning in a massive rewrite.
...
So, release team, opinions? I understand that Luis's rant (sorry Luis)
may have been deflating, but I'm giving a lightning presentation on the
State of GNOME at OSCon next week, and the 3.0 thing is bound to come up
- I'd *really* like to be able to say something along the lines of "2
years between major releases, 6 month between incremental releases, and
we've started the first cycle of that already - the release team is
working with maintainers & community to plan the major arc of features
for 3.0".
Can I say that and not be telling a lie?
Cheers,
Dave.
PS. I'm still unclear about what opening the big tent means exactly -
does it mean having a number of criteria, and any application meeting
those criteria becomes part of GNOME? Does that imply abandoning the
release sets?
--
Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
bolsh gnome org
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