Re: New suites vs. common release cycle [Was: Productivity suite]

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> <quote who="Christian Rose">
>
>> > We're not really going in the opposite direction, because there will
>> > still be the beautifully integrated and coherent Desktop "product".
>> > However, we'll create more opportunities for projects to identify
>> > themselves with GNOME, be *part* of GNOME, and join the GNOME release
>> > process without a lot of hassle.
>>
>> So we will allow more projects to call themselves "GNOME", without
>> actually being GNOME?
>
> Essentially, yes.
>
>> Which brings us to another issue. When and how was it decided that
>> Abiword
>> should be included in the productivity suite? It's already listed as
>> "included", although I've seen no public discussion (or even consensus)
>> about it.
>

I posted about it here at least 3 week ago. There were no negative
comments at all. We all took this to mean it was approved and I submitted
the abiword-2.3.1 package.

I was very impressed at how smoothly it all went compared to the other
flames fests I've seen.

Cheers

Martin

> Nor has there been a lot of discussion/consensus about the productivity
> suite -> I think Vincent was very keen and just created it straight away.
> :)
>
> - Jeff
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