Re: What are the community's goals for 2.0? [was Re: Getting serious about releasing]

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 01:10, Luis Villa wrote:

> So... what are the community's goals for 2.0.0?

Many people will upgrade from 1.2 or 1.4, and if their experience
is bad, they will maybe stop using Gnome for a while.  Right now
I don't think that'd be good.

So Gnome 2 needs to be reasonably solid, fast, and not too
memory-intensive, when compared with 1.2 or 1.4.

An extra couple of months might mean gnome 2 doesn't get into
the next debian release, if their shedule is to be believed,
but when it does, make the wait worth-while!  People don't
use features, they use software that may or may not have
features -- the experience has to be a positive one.

So, wait until the end of July.

Or that's my take at least.

Liam

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