Re: Decoupling GNOME Office?

[Joe Shaw <joe helixcode com>]

> My feelings on a "GNOME-Office" release is would it not be better
> waiting until there is some sort of "interoperability" between the
> applications, and then saying "This is GNOME-Office. Bow before it".

This is exactly how I feel as well.

> What we'd be doing now would be "Here's some applications that you can
> use in an office type situation", and then they are all back on their
> seperate release schedules again (Guppi once a year, Gnumeric once (or
> twice) an hour :) which just seems to complicate things ("GNOME Office
> keeps crashing", "What version?" "Oh 1.4, but I upgraded Gnumeric,
> which needed a new Bonobo, which killed Guppi" etc).

Yes, once we say they represent the "GNOME Office" then they need to
follow the same (or similar) release engineering schedules, which is just
what we don't need right now.

Joe