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

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

[If the main idea behind this has already been discussed, pay no attention
-- I didn't really track GNOME2 lately]

So what happened to the original idea of having a Core Library release? We
have all the paralell-installability(?) stuff worked out for the GNOME 2
libraries (right?) so we could just release the core libs, right? Core
libs as in (off the top of my head) Bonobo, GConf, libgnome* and GnomeVFS.

Of course, this is assuming most of the bugs are application-related,
which seems to be the case: looking at Havoc's list, most of them are
Nautilus/Panel/CApplets. So, just like we've already had our lowest layer
released (glib-atk-pango-gtk+), we could just climb one level higher and
do this again.

This way, our users experience no regression (since their end-user apps
remain the same) and third-party developers can begin their serious work.
So, everybody wins. Then we can release 'the Desktop' when the end-user
apps are ready. 

This shouldn't take more time than doing the library+desktop thing
together since this is essentially just a prioritization(?) of the core
lib issues, so the sum of effort needed should stay the same.

So this is the part where I invite everyone to point out why I'm on crack
here.

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