Re: Some proposed package removals and additions

[Ian Peters <itp flux gnome org>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:13:01AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> "David C. Mason" <dcm@redhat.com> writes: 
> > I am all for our inclusion of Mozilla for Nautilus, but like Owen, I
> > think we need to take great care to make sure we are not filling
> > bugs.gnome.org with Mozilla bug reports, they just aren't ours.
> > 
> 
> We're going to get them if Mozilla is in Nautilus, people won't know
> the bugs are caused by Mozilla. We can just forward the reports.

Agree.  We (GNOME or Helix Code) get bug reports for pretty much
anything that crashes or doesn't work right, thanks to bug-buddy.

> I think we provide libpng etc. on our ftp site, don't we? We should
> provide a nice Mozilla tarball/RPM also, just for convenience.
> That's all "included in the release" really means isn't it?

This also gives us the opportunity to suggest a version known to
work right, which is important given the dynamic nature of Mozilla
development.

Aside: I'd like to suggest we keep this discussion on gnome-1.4-list
instead of continuing to cross-post across all of our lists.
Otherwise we defeat the purpose of having this list at all...

-- 
Ian Peters
itp@helixcode.com