Re: My first impression and goodbye

[Gerald Gutierrez <gutier intergate bc ca>]

> If they're "Use at your own risk", why are they "required to run Gnome"?
> If they're still in development, why is gmc at version 4.5.23 and
> control-center at version 1.0.1?

This seems to be a trend in modern software society. A new major version
used to signify a prime time debugged and and ready-for-use piece of
software that people will get. Many have taken the inverse of
this argument, instead of the converse, to be true. So now it means "if I
increase the major version number people will come and use my software".
So now we have software that's not ready for general use getting
++major_version_number.

> No, you told him to post error messages, backtraces, etc. and that his
> concerns were just "incongruous bitching".  Denigrating problem reports
> is no way to build a userbase.

This was discussed recently in another mailing list. The major point that
came out was:

	"Netiquette" came from "Etiquette".

>> And nearly all the problems he
>> encountered aren't Gnome-core or Gnome-libs related. Most were E and
>> Gmc, neither of which are finished yet.
> But which, again, are required to run Gnome 1.0 (or so the web site
> leads one to believe)

Sounds like E and Gmc are part of GNOME to me.

	"No the wheels aren't part of the car, but you need them to drive."