Re: GNOME 2.0 Schedule

[Christian Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

Hi Stephen,
I don't think anyone believe that you or Sun or anyone else for that
matter is trying to hijack GNOME. If I in my original mail came of as 
indicating such then I apologize. The people of Sun has as individuals
and as representatives of their company been exemplary community members
in my opinion. My response was meant as one community member to another
saying; 'if you said what I believe you just said then that would be a
mistake so please reconsider.'. Your response has made it clear that I
misinterpreted your initial mail.

As for the debate of what GNOME 2.0 should, there I agree with your
suggestion that we should try to incorporate as many UI improvements as
possible from the useability people, at least those that are easy to do.

But I also agree with Havoc's stance that the important part now is
delivering a GNOME 2.0 with its plattform improvements, and being to
ambitious for 2.0 in terms of new user functionality above and beyond
the important improvements the new plattform gives, might lead to
further delays. I think we all need to remember that each new release is
not the end, but the beginning. And with this being such a radically new
plattform then it is even more true than ever.

Christian 


On Fri, 2001-10-12 at 16:21, Stephen Browne wrote:
> Hey Im having to defend something I didn't even say now!
> 
> I never said anything about FREEZING the UI for GNOME.
> I never said anything about SUN leading or trying to enforce anything.
> It has never been the intention of SUN to hijack the GNOME project
> or cut anyone out, and I challenge anyone to show any evidence to the
> contrary.  From the start, people at SUN  have tried to be good
> community members and I believe are entitled to make suggestions
> and highlight areas of concern just like anyone else.
> 
> As for sander's evil demented bug.............
> 
> /me decides to pay sander a visit the next time he is in the office.
> 
> Stephen.
> 
> Sander Vesik wrote:
> 
> > On 11 Oct 2001, Chris Phelps wrote:
> >
> > [snip - something I agree with]
> >
> > > I realize that Sun wants to use GNOME as it's next generation desktop,
> > > and thus would like the community to follow it's lead in becoming a
> > > "commercialized" desktop. To some extent this is an extremly valuable
> > > service to the community. Testing facilities, libraries like atk, etc
> > > are all things that GNOME needs. GNOME needs a UI freeze like I need
> > > another hole in my head. The community is what makes GNOME great, don't
> > > try and cut the little guy out of the loop or we'll end up cutting our
> > > own throats and killing the whole project.
> > >
> >
> > yes - i really can't understand what kind of evil demented bug bit Stehen
> > and Glynn (and where) that they feel like walking around giving off Sun is
> > about to institute some kind of no UI changes between major releases
> > policy (lets not get into the 'huh? how?' part) for gnome.
> >
> > We really are (well, ok, maybe me excepted) basicly good guys.
> >
> > >
> > > Later,
> > > Chris
> > >
> >
> >         Sander,
> >                 now, UI freezes during the releases is another matter
> >
> > I haven't been vampired. You've been Weatherwaxed.
> >
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